What Will I Learn?

100% in ASL & Deaf made. Access to video lessons and materials to up your digital skills! Learn at your own pace on mobile or desktop before your in-person session scheduled at your designated location.

10 Topic Areas. Improve your digital skills through this program - the first one geared towards Deaf people, specifically in bilingual storybook app development. In our online modules, we will introduce you to essential topics, with industry experts. Discover how they execute visions into reality.

Create new storybook apps. Publish new storybook apps. Through our modules, learn how to build your own stories on VL2 Storybook Creator. Before you know it, you'll be creating incredible stories!

Let's expand our Global Digital Library for the future of Deaf children!

Introduction

Welcome!

How to use Podia

Roadmap in App Development

Practice Downloading Files

Practice quiz

Frequently Asked Questions

Motion Light Lab

What is Motion Light Lab? Who are the trainers? Meet them!

Motion Light Lab

Preview

Meet the Team

Preview

Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2)

VL2 Research

VL2 Storybook Creator

VL2 Storybook Apps

Design of VL2 Storybook Apps

VL2 Quiz

Literature

What is Literature?

ASL Literature

Children's Literature

Storytelling Techniques

Literature Quiz

The Creative Process

Six steps in creating your app

Story Creation

Story Development

Storyboarding

Storyboard template KEYNOTE.key

Storyboard template POWERPOINT.pptx

Our Toolbox

Equipment

Video Editing Software

Adobe Creative Cloud

Other Tools in our Toolbox

Contracts and Scope of Work

Contracts

Art & Film Production Overview

Overview - Project Management

Digital Assets - Checklist

Art Production

Preparation

Art Production

Digitizing Artwork

Art Mediums

Zero Artistic Talent Required

Photoshop Overview

Photoshop Practice Files

Photoshop Tutorial

LIVE Photoshop Webinar

Art Production: Quiz

Film Production

Pre-production

Production Etiquette

Production

Filming

Lighting

Directing

Editing

FCP practice file

LIVE Final Cut Pro Webinars

Premiere Pro practice files

Film Production: Quiz

Post Art & Film Production

Handbrake

Media Encoder

Animation

Loading Video (App Startup)

After Effects Part 1

Preview

After Effects Part 2

AE Practice Files.zip

LIVE Animation Webinar

Storybook App Images Asset

Gingerbread Cookie Practice.psd

VL2 Storybook Creator

Getting Started

Perform a Quick Test Run

Gingerbread Assets-byYiqiaoWang.zip

Working in Xcode with VL2 Storybook Creator

Preparing your assets

Understanding Folder Structure

Adding & Removing Pages

Adding & Removing Pages-Images.xcassets

Adding & Removing Glossary Words

Inserting Text

Highlighting vocabulary

Inserting Background, Shake, & Thumbnail Images

Inserting Full Story, Sentences, and Glossary Videos

Gingerbread Cookie Xcode Practice

Info Folder

StoryData Folder

LEARN MODE: How to add words in Glossary (with Creator 3.0)

App Submission

Apple Developer Program

App Store Connect

Creating a New App

AppID - Bundle Identifiers

Provisioning Profiles

Creating App Screenshots

AppScreenshotTemplate_2732x2048.psd

App Submission - from Xcode

App Submission - Submit for Review

Submitting Updates/TestFlight for Beta Testing

LIVE Publishing Webinar

Contracts and Scope of Work Webinar

Using in Classrooms

Assignments

Assignments Overview & Timeline

Assignment #1: Three story ideas

Assignment #2: Outline/Mapping your story #1

Assignment #3: Research and Develop a Design Board

Assignment #4: Storyboarding and Script Outline

Assignment #5: ASL Drafts

Assignment #6: Revise & Refine

Assignment #7: Art Production

Assignment #8: Film Production

Storybook Creator Classes

Class Schedule

Class Zoom Link

Creator Immersive Virtual Workshop

March 3 - 7, 2021

Webinars, panel, & creative talk.

VV Underground

Creative Talk with Lauren and Douglas Ridloff

Artists Panel

App Submission

Free

ML2 Training: Storybook Creator & App Development

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Everything you need to build your own bilingual storybook app; from production to development using the VL2 Storybook Creator.

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