Hey gang,
My sponser teacher showed me this awesome website (www.animoto.com) for making powerpoint type presentations waaaaaay more interesting to watch. To make videos you load up a ton of pictures and a song and the website completely syncs the pictures to the song. It looks very professional and has really cool effects in it. You can add text slides as well however they are only about 50 characters in total so it requires some brevity. I was really impressed with the tool and am excited to try it out a bit more. There is a fee for the website normally, about $30/year but they give free memberships for education! There is an application process that is about as long as signing up for any internet website then you should be good to go. The website has an example video which shows what it would look like fairly accurately. (This could also be a cool tool to do personal stuff with!) Hope this helps
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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This is pretty cool. I was in a SS classroom for the 2 week observation and the mentor teacher I had really wanted a smart board. There were only three in the school, one in Math, one in the library and one elsewhere. I had never heard of such a thing. But I went to the library to see what it was about. It is the future, the new technology. My mentor wants one bad but they run about $2000-$3000. And since the school I went to got tv's by allowing the Army to run their recruitment ads to the students, I don't see them having the funds anytime soon. But I encourage you to google Smart Boards and see what they are about. All the teachers want them, they are very cool.
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