Boinx Software is used by educators, professional and amateur film makers all over the world to create astonishing work, iStopMotion 2 is the tool of choice for Stop Motion Animation (aka. Claymation) and Time Lapse Recording. It is complecated. But it is available in German and English.
Pedagogical uses: developement creativity, creation of digital movies, video presentations,
Tag: English skills requierd, video
technical uses:
Knovio is an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows you to make an exisiting powerpoint presentation much more dynamic using a web cam or micro. You simply upload your presentation, and then you can narrate each slide with audio or video, and then share your video presentation either via email or across your social networks.
It is a particularly great tool for someone who is already proficient in powerpoint. Their program is completely free, and since it is web-based, you can access your creations wherever you have internet access.
Pedagogical uses:
Project presentations, students presentations related to their projects.
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This tool allow student to show and promote his/her creative works.
Pedagogical uses: presenting creative projects with images. This could be a good tool to show final creative projects to other countries students.
Vidzor is an online interactive video platform that allows anyone to create and publish interactive videos on the web. The Vidzor team has designed a video editing solution for both artists and their audience that accelerates and maximizes the power of short online videos.
"What is ThingLink?
ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images.
Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."
Technical uses: Create your account in Google +, make your circles of contacts and start a videoconference. Talk up to 10 people simultaneously, for free.
Pedagogical uses: Communication between peers, collaborative work, teamwork between teachers.
This is a very nice strategy for using the FUTUREME.org tool in class. Students will get an email in the future in which they can describe their goals or make predictions. Similar to 43things.com
Interesting information about memory, learning and funny games to train your brain !! Have you ever played to Simon or Memory,..Try them!
Pedagogical uses: learners can use these games just to train their brains playing.
could be very useful for the International project! It's free and anyone can join. You can also download a client to your computer (if you have a Mac) or mobile phone/tablet, but it can also be used online.
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids, families and teachers. Two (or more) people author a Storybird-one with words, one with pictures-and then share it with their network. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.
For the teachers is possible to create thematic assignments within seconds to support their lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface.
Pedagogical uses:
developement creativity, language skills, foreign languages skills, creative writing, storytelling.
Intermediate level
Tags: free, storytelling
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections or use other software.
The idea of Climarks is that through each other, we can learn, understand and enjoy more than we could alone. On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that people find while surfing the web.As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide
Pedagogical uses: creativity, general knowledge, languge learning
Through LiveCastr people can broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web, allowing their online friends to follow them from any event, anytime, anywhere. The live video can be viewed on the LiveCastr website or on a LiveCastr player that users can place on their personalized profile page on their favorite online social network.
Stripcreator is a website that allows users to create and save their own comic strips.
Pedagogical uses:
creativity developement, icebreaking
Novice level
Tags: free, illustrations, creativity