Search for pictures on Flckr and then bring them into your presentation and add little tags or bubble captions. Students could use this to create their own illustrated stories. Share and Publish in a variety of ways, including printing and blogging.
"Create free timelines. Follow interesting stories, get updates and notifications with "Today in history". myHistro is an interactive diary and a story-flow generator for bloggers."
This seems an addition to ways to use timelines/mind-mappers/blogs that would be worth exploring.
"Creating infographics is a skill much needed in the 21st century classroom. They can serve a wide variety of learning objectives and they are not really hard to make. They are very useful in the sense that they can be used for illustrative purposes. For instance, teachers can use graphs, diagrams , and colorful templates to present information in such a way that catches students attention."
This is a series of low-cost ($1 U.S.) podcasts about various topics in multimedia uses for teaching. The topics include narrated slideshows, telling a digital story, using smartphones, quick edit videos on the iPad, and creating multimedia ebooks. W. Fryer is the author of Playing with Media, also relatively low-cost for ebooks.
A very handy app for adding titles/captions directly on a photo, either plain text or in color, rotated, fancy font, etc. Thi is iPhone and iPad, but check out what might be available for other smart mobile devices. Use for vocabulary self-quizzes shared on social media or among classmates, and for project-based learning.
From Russell Stannard's Teacher Training videos: MessageHop allows you to "Load up pictures, add your text about them and then create various animations. This is such a simple tool to use. Great for lower level students, it encourages them to write and alllows them to personalise their content. They can share their creations on the internet."
This is a collection of texts and images that you can use for ESL/EFL activities. Have students create and add their own digital stories. Thanks to C. Arena.
At last the answer to my wishes: A free video converter that transforms the Mac .mov format into almost any desired other format, including Mpeg4, FLV, and AVI. Despite the goofy name, QTAmateur.app, this little gem will make it easy to convert your Powerpoint movies into video that can be uploaded to YouTube and viewed on mobile phones, etc. Thank you Anvsoft, Inc. It also supports English, French, German, and Japanese.
Great ideas and cautionary advice on using VoiceThread with 2nd graders (ages 7-8). The lesson upgrades a typical report from books and library and paper to electronic.
This is an excellent description of what Thinglink is and how to use it: Tag an image with a little dot that links to a definition, further instructions, and active URL, etc. Very helpful for your webpage or instructional wiki.
A cute way to introduce yourself to your students, and vice versa. Students in teams could post their pictures and comment on each other's "peach." Add music, share on Fb or Twitter, make comments, make private or public. Example from EVO_Drama_2012 at http://photopeach.com/album/10l8r5x.
"Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser."
This is a great tool for getting students talking, or for creating a lively presentation. You can upload a picture, or draw from scratch, as on a blackboard or whiteboard. Easy to use, free download, and available from the App Store for smart phone or iPad.
"Each day author/teacher Bill Zimmerman is offering excerpts from a new ‘’Make Beliefs’’ book aimed at encouraging students to express their thoughts through writing and drawing, as well as to spur their creative imaginations. They are in the form of comic strip panels in which comic characters raise a provocative question and students can write their responses by creating comic strips at MakeBeliefsComix. com, a free educational resource. "
These are imaginative prompts and many could also be used for writing activities.
"As one of the largest producers and owners of educational content in the world, the BBC has created a global classroom for teachers, students, and passionate life-long learners. "
This is really an eye-catching site with wonderful resources from the BBC laid out with visual links. Too many different ideas to even begin to catalog them. Give it a try. Learnist, the host site, is like Facebook but with a more serious leaning (almost wrote "learning" there...)
Great tips for the budding student artist. I would recommend this to any student who shows artistic promise with photography. Let the creative juices flow.
Fun and easy for students to make a wide variety of posters. Have them use it to advertise their projects, or to make signs on how to use various tools for their lab walls. Free and downloadable as .pdf. With graphics software and a large-size printer, much larger posters could be made.