Adding an Animation

As I am back in a Mac lab environment I plan on using Hype with my classes. Adding an animation to an iBook is made a lot easier with Hype 2.0. I Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 12.00.35 PMtook screen shots of the different scratch components I wanted and animated them. Then I took a screencast of the output in scratch and converted the video into an animated gif using GIFBrewry and added that to the animation as well.

Just a few steps:

create the animation in Hype 2

export the animation as a Dashboard/iBooks Author Widget

select the widget and drag it into your iBook

The software creates the default png from the opening scene of your animation. This is the widget in the iBook I am working on.