Almost everyone has heard of TED, but have you noticed TED's new website, TED ED? Please do yourselves a favor and check out this amazing site that focuses on education. Educators from around the world have uploaded complete lessons along with customizable quizzes and background research. Lessons are also animated by a professional webmasters. You can upload your own lessons as well. Watch the tour video by clicking here!
AoA Audio Extractor Basic
AoA Audio Extractor Basic provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
Extract audio off an iMovie or DVD
With AoA Audio Extractor, you can easily extract audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats
great online tool that students can use to create posters and videos. The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts.
a free service for
creating animated videos. Without
downloading any software or
having any special skills, Memoov
allows users to create animated
videos up to five minutes in length.
Creating an animated video with
Memoov can be as simple as
selecting a setting image(s),
selecting a character or characters,
and adding dialogue.
Memoov offers users a wide variety
options that make it stand out
amongst similar services. Memoov
allows users to customize the
appearance of the characters in their
animated videos. On the dialogue
front, Memoov gives users the
option to record their own voices for
use in their videos. Users can also
upload pre-recorded dialogue in
MP3 format. Memoov users have
the option to add background music
to their animated videos.
free iOS app for creating videos on the go. The concept behind Videolicious is similar to that used by services like Animoto. Using Videolicious on your iPhone or iPad you can mix together images, video clips, music and your voice to create a short video. The user reviews of Videolicious are generally quite favorable, but there are some complaints that you have to turn on location services to use the app. Watch the video below to learn more about Videolicious (warning, the background music is annoying).
Vokis are so much fun to create- choose and edit a character, choose a background, add text or record your voice and you have a Voki to tell your story! Halloween characters include a pumpkin, skeleton, and vampire.
Storyjumper is simple to use with primary students. The program comes loaded with backgrounds and images for many themes. The only downfall is that there is no embed code available, but you can provide the link to share the stories.