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This is a free website that allows young kids to create stories. It provides them with characters and lines. Once the story is created it can't be edited. The stories can be shared.
An alternative to MovieMaker and iMovie. Might be easier for students who don't have access to either programs at home. After playing with this for a bit, I find it to be more useful than Animoto because users can do more. Instead o just plugging things in, you actually get to play around a bit more.
Create PowerPoint-like presentations without PowerPoint and that play from the Cloud, so an audience with differently formatted devices can view. Grap pictures quickly from Web, edit, or load PowerPoint slides. Create instant url. Compare with Slideshare.
Edit existing videos from Khan Academy, YouTube, LearnZillion and EDpuzzle to make them just right for your class. Crop, add your voice, insert video notes and quizzes. Useful for flipped classrooms.
This is a very well, designed and user friendly classroom blogging tool. I have been using it with my fifth graders and it is working very well. I can review all of the content before allowing it to be posted. I can make comments and mark errors and re-submit it to the student to be corrected. I can even pull up a blog as an example and edit it in front of the class without telling them whose blog it is. Pretty cool :-)
This page documents ways to use productivity tools in the media center, gives the 5 most used productivity tools, and lots "more to explore" at the bottom of the page.
Other benefits of online productivity tools would have to include the fact that work can be authored and edited by multiple people from their own computers, accessed from home or from school, and stored, shared and published online.
""i Tell a Story" allows children to narrate and record their stories. But as a complete audio recording and editing tool, there are countless other uses, such as having adults record stories and messages for the little ones in their lives to listen to. Add funny sounds and music if you want, plus a picture, title, and your name, and send your audio book"
Don't settle for ordinary digital photos for your presentations. With Smilebox you can add border and pizazz to your visual reports and image presentations. Fast, easy (took me 15 minutes to set up and get started), and fun. Your students will really enjoy playing with the options.
Load a web page or an image--text page works also--and then select areas of the screen, comment box opens with your name, and insert comments to share with teammates or colleagues. Very easy to use.
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. If you are new to this site, you may find the Getting Started and Guide to Searching videos and tutorials helpful.
This site provides many applications for pictures or video such as edit, download, add, and design. The site also offers lessons for students to acquire skills. This is useful when the student is using the site to design and add three-dimensional effects of the classroom that help students visualize the environment and their effects through the image to develop the sensory side of the student. The student can also download images on the site and engage with other students, teachers, and parents.