Animoto
www.animoto.com
"Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.
Simply upload your pictures and video clips, choose your style, add words and music, and click the "produce video" button. Then, Animoto’s cinematic technology does its magic and in minutes brings it all to life with a beautifully orchestrated production you can share with family and friends."
Use Animoto as you introduce your lessons to engage students with media, to demonstrate learning at the end of a unit and much more!.
"Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.
Simply upload your pictures and video clips, choose your style, add words and music, and click the "produce video" button. Then, Animoto’s cinematic technology does its magic and in minutes brings it all to life with a beautifully orchestrated production you can share with family and friends."
Use Animoto as you introduce your lessons to engage students with media, to demonstrate learning at the end of a unit and much more!.
Glogster
www.glogster.com
Glogster allows users to create interactive graphic blogs or Glogs. Glogs are online multimedia posters ‐
with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. Regular accounts and
education accounts offering the basics are free. Upgrade to a Pro account for additional features.
Educators utilizing Glogster EDU’s platform have direct access to individual students through a single
portal. Not only can teachers see all student activity within their own Teacher Dashboard, each student
can also easily view and manage all of their classes and projects within their Student Dashboard.
Use Glogster in the classroom to enable students to demonstrate their background knowledge, as a final unit project to demonstrate understanding, as a collage or portfolio of student learning - the possibilities are endless! Students can also present their Glogs as practice in public speaking.
Glogster allows users to create interactive graphic blogs or Glogs. Glogs are online multimedia posters ‐
with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. Regular accounts and
education accounts offering the basics are free. Upgrade to a Pro account for additional features.
Educators utilizing Glogster EDU’s platform have direct access to individual students through a single
portal. Not only can teachers see all student activity within their own Teacher Dashboard, each student
can also easily view and manage all of their classes and projects within their Student Dashboard.
Use Glogster in the classroom to enable students to demonstrate their background knowledge, as a final unit project to demonstrate understanding, as a collage or portfolio of student learning - the possibilities are endless! Students can also present their Glogs as practice in public speaking.
iMovie / Moviemaker
If students can drag and drop, they can make a movie in iMovie. They’ll start by adding video, photos, and music, then fine-tune their projects with simple yet powerful editing tools. iMovie automatically adds animated titles and sophisticated transitions, transforming raw footage into a video scrapbook, a broadcast news segment, or anything else your class imagines.
Prezi
www.prezi.com
Vuvox
www.vuvox.com
VUVOX is an easy to use production and instant sharing service that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into rich personal expressions. VUVOX reflects your life. It gives you the ability to:
Take visual blogging and personal expression to the next level.
VUVOX gives you the power to create one of a kind stories in an instant. All you need to do is provide whatever cool content that you have. Take pictures, video, audio and text. Mix it up. Choose backgrounds, colors, textures that create your vibe and then you are ready to share your piece with the world.
VUVOX is an easy to use production and instant sharing service that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into rich personal expressions. VUVOX reflects your life. It gives you the ability to:
Take visual blogging and personal expression to the next level.
VUVOX gives you the power to create one of a kind stories in an instant. All you need to do is provide whatever cool content that you have. Take pictures, video, audio and text. Mix it up. Choose backgrounds, colors, textures that create your vibe and then you are ready to share your piece with the world.
Weebly
www.weebly.com
Weebly is an online, free, widget‐based Web site creator. Anyone can create a free account. Teachers can get a free educator account with thirty student accounts controlled by the teacher. Upgrade to a Pro account for some additional features.
Use this in the classroom to enable students design a website as their product rather than writing another essay. Using the sharing feature, students can collaborate to build a Weebly as their product. Have students reflect on their work through thecreation of a digital portfolio or add a blog to your website and ask students to respond to aquote from a text or upload a picture and ask students to explain how it is relevant to the information they have just covered.
Weebly is an online, free, widget‐based Web site creator. Anyone can create a free account. Teachers can get a free educator account with thirty student accounts controlled by the teacher. Upgrade to a Pro account for some additional features.
Use this in the classroom to enable students design a website as their product rather than writing another essay. Using the sharing feature, students can collaborate to build a Weebly as their product. Have students reflect on their work through thecreation of a digital portfolio or add a blog to your website and ask students to respond to aquote from a text or upload a picture and ask students to explain how it is relevant to the information they have just covered.