Animoto

Animoto can be used to create powerful multimedia quickly and easily. It can be used with k-12 classes and helps to promote an understanding of visual literacyStudents can shoot and/or collect potent images, create powerful verbal audio to accompany their images or compose songs to accompany their visuals. It provokes the student to consider both the impact of their work and the media choosen for that work.

When the movie is embedded in other web 2.0 tools it encourages real world feedback on student work.

The movie below was created as a year 4 students Religious Literacy Assessment, the student wrote and performed the song, gathered the images and created this in Animoto.

Below you will find two video tutorials on how to create an Animoto account and then how to create a movie in Animoto.

Creating an account in Animoto

Download Video: Posted at TeacherTube.com.

Creating a movie in Animoto

Download Video: Posted at TeacherTube.com.

Animoto

Animoto is an amazing movie creator, add photos, choose music and Animoto does the work.

The Chorpus Christ movie below took about 2 minutes to create!!!!

New Story Telling Options

Alan Levine has put together fifty web tools you can use to create create a story. They are organized into categories according to the kind of story thet can produce or the kind of media they are built around.This is a great resource to encourage your students to present their stories and ideas in different fomats

You can find the ideas here – StoryTools

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Blog Backups


is a free service that will back up your blog automatically each night.
With a number of our teachers now using blogs it would be prudent to
embrace this backing up strategy.

Blog Backup Online

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Macarthur Schools Joint 1:1 Staff Professional Learning Day

The Macarthur Schools Joint 1:1 Staff Professional Learning Day is an initiative to support teachers in their move to a 1 child-1 laptop(1:1) learning environment in 2008. This posting supports a session on Web 2.0 tools delivered on the day.

This session will look at a selection of web 2.0 tools that can be integrated into your classroom practice immediately.

The presentation can be found below, hosted on slideshare and the examples displayed can be found at http://del.icio.us/MarkWoolley/MacPDDay

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The Web 2.0 tools in our grab bag can be found at the links below

For each of these tools it is simply a matter of signing up and start exploring. You can probably find a class expert for each of these tools

You can find additional information about blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and RSS on the pages of this blog.

Technorati Tags: Web2.0, Education, Learning

Zamzar

WMV movie files that wont play on your mac?

You can use ZAMZAR to upload any file and convert it to the format you need.

ZAMZAR works with image, document, movie and music formats. Well worth a try

technorati tags:Zamzar, file, conversion

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About Del.icio.us

What is Del.icio.us? Why use it?

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool that we can use to organise and share our bookmarks.

Why use Del.icio.us?

Del.icio.us allows us to;

• Share bookmarks across many computers
• Allows us to “Tag” our bookmarks
• Backs up our bookmarks externally(safe in computer crashes)
• Allows us to share our bookmarks with fellow teachers and students
• Allows for searching of bookmarks
• Permits subscriptions to other people Del.icio.us bookmarks
• Allows us to connect with the web resources of the very best minds in our field.

How to use Del.icio.us

Its quite simple really, sign up for an account and start using it!!!

There is a QuickTime video tutorial below which will walk you through the process of setting up an account and using

Download

My Del.icio.us bookmarks can be found at http://del.icio.us/MarkWoolley You can add me to your network if you see anything of interest.

Web 2.0 Advent Calendar

Web 2.0 treats for Advent. Sample 24 new exciting opportunities for online interaction, collaboration and learning. Check out the calendar here

Technorati Tags: web2.0, Education, Learning, Advent.

Flock – the social web browser

If your getting into web 2.0 then you will have found the limits of Safari quite often. While Firefox works well where Safari won’t I have fallen in love with Flock.

Its a fully functional browser that integrates directly with Flickr to make uploading, sharing and using photos easier. It allows you to write blogs from within the browser and contains a really good RSS agregator. Start using these tools and you wont go back!!

Technorati Tags: web2.0, Browsers, Flock

Zotero

Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

It is their attempt to create a tool that will help organise and record research sources, allow users to add notes and create an accurate bibliography. This tool may help to solve some of our challenges with students adequately referencing research tasks.

i would be interested to hear from some librarians who are willing to look at this tool and try it within a classroom setting. You will need the latest version of firefox (free download here) and then you can download the Zotero plugin here.

Technorati Tags: Research Education Learning Zotero