Kahootz is an education multimedia construction toolset created by the

Australian Children's Television Foundation The Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) is a national non-profit children's media production and policy hub. The ACTF helps develop children's television policy; distributes and pays for Australian children's television series; ...

. 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 3D Movie Maker (commonly shortened to 3DMM) is a children's computer program developed by Microsoft Home's Microsoft Kids subsidiary released in 1995. Using the program, users can make films by placing 3D characters and props into pre-rendered ...

. 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 QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Created in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is avai ...

and

AVI Avi is a given name, usually masculine, often a diminutive of Avram, Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of Abigail. People with the given name include: * Avi (born 1937), Newbery award-winning Americ ...

movies for viewing. {{cite book, author=Greg Bowden, title=Learning Kahootz 2.0, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MihNQt_VaqYC, date=1 July 2005, publisher=Guided Computer Tutorials, isbn=978-1-921217-21-0

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

External links

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