More on Voice Threads, i-movie, photo-story

• More on Voice Threads
• Telling a story through inviting people to make comments.
• On the voicethread.com website are many videos that can be made. Sign up as a K-12 educator, you are allowed to do this for free.
• There is an export feature.
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• http://voicethread.com/#q+French.b124600.i647697
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• You can have students record, and then the instructor can correct.
• You can also type in comments.
• You cannot copyright? But you can share your threads. There are options for making threads, etc. and for being in control of your thread.
• You can upload from the internet and upload pictures, or from your computer.
• You can tour an art museum. Be an art guide, explain the pictures in French/Spanish/Chinese, and use the drawing tool to do the comments. Or be a sports commentator, and use the drawing tool.
• Students working on the project, they can save as they go, and edit.
• Use avatars to identify users. - the pictures to identify postings
• You can do a lot of online things to do with language.
• Telling digital stories - using i-movie with Mac. For windows, there is movie-maker, a free software.
• Can drag clips down to a storyline. Video transitions are there, too.
• From Microsoft, take photos, and put them together as a photo-story, this application is called photo-story, download from Microsoft.com.
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• Photostory is also free for microsoft. Photo Story 3 for windows. Restricted to pictures only. Very quick.
• Pick pictures, place in order, add text, captions, select effects and transitions, effects with the photos, then can add sound and narrate, or have music. Becomes a story. Can then add music to the narration. Comes with music or you can add your own.
• Choral Interlude on the web is royalty-free.
• Save the photo story. Saves both whole and parts so you can make changes later.
• Tech4Teachers blog has stuff for teachers.
• knowhow2go.org = another helpful site.