Kahootz

Kahootz
Developer(s)	Australian Children's Television Foundation
Stable release	2.0.5 / March, 2006
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	3D computer graphics software
License	Proprietary
Website	www.actf.com.au/education/kahootz (inactive)

Kahootz is an education multimedia construction toolset created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Using this program, one can make 3D animations using the pre-made objects and backgrounds. It was used by many schools to teach not only making movies with the program but co-operation between the students.

As of 2012 the software is no longer available to purchase, and support has stopped.

Description

Kahootz was designed for children. It made use of many colours, characters, movements and pictures. Many Australian schools had access to this program. In fact, the Victorian Government bought the program for every school in Victoria.

Features

Kahootz starts up with a New Scene. A "world" is then chosen and characters and objects can be added in the same way as 3D Movie Maker. It is possible to zoom in and out and change the camera angle, as Kahootz is 3D, so it is as if you are in a real world.

Animating the object is similar to motion tweening in Macromedia Flash. A keyframe is created with the object in the desired position. A second keyframe is then created and the object is moved to the new desired position. One can then preview this with the convenient Preview button.

Many scenes could be put into a collection called an xpression. These small files could then be converted in QuickTime and AVI movies for viewing.^[1]

Plug-ins

Kahootz Movie Maker

Kahootz Movie Maker is a plug-in to the program. It is used to convert into AVI (for Windows) and QuickTime (for the Mac) it also was used to convert files into oxis files, used for video editing uses.

Pattern Manager

This plug-in allowed the user to edit the patterns pre-loaded into the program. Support was added for this plug-in in the 2.0.4 update.

Version history

The last version of Kahootz was Kahootz 3, released in May 2008.

References

^ Greg Bowden (1 July 2005). Learning Kahootz 2.0. Guided Computer Tutorials. ISBN 978-1-921217-21-0.

External links

Kahootz Software Homepage (archived link)
Australian Children's Television Foundation

[Bowden2005-1] Greg Bowden (1 July 2005). Learning Kahootz 2.0. Guided Computer Tutorials. ISBN 978-1-921217-21-0.

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