Multimedia Publishing
Use a wide range of tools to create professional quality video, animation, and slide productions. Try the YouTube Channel: Ad Council and ActivityTV.
Old Way - Send in film and get back slides.
New Way - Build multimedia projects to share with the world.
Explore Tools
Hot Choice: Video - YouTube Channels
Hot Choice: Animation Makers - Go Animate
Hot Choice: Image SlideShows - SlideShare
Hot Choice: Interactive Slideshows - VoiceThread
- Video:
- Hot Choice - ActivityTv
- General - Blip.tv (free), Google Video (free), YouTube (free, lots of ads), OpenMediaNetwork (free; good choice for long-term public hosting space), OurMedia (free), Videoegg (free), Vimeo (free) , DotSub (subtitles)
- Educational Video Sharing - Edublogs.tv, SchoolTube, TeacherTube, Teachers.tv, iTunes U
- Video Content - ActivityTv, BBC One Minute Wonders, Blazing Book Trailers, CNN Student News, Current.tv, The Futures Channel, Graspr, History Channel, How Stuff Works Video, Huhu, icould, KidsKnowIt, Next Vista, PBS Video, Reuters Video Top News, Science Tube, SnagFilms, Ted, Untamed Science, YouTube Channel: Ad Council, Academic Video Collections on YouTube from Open Culture
- Animation Makers
- Image Slideshows
- Hot Choice: SlideShare
- 280 Slides - photos, movies, PowerPoint
- Big Huge Labs - slide show with web images and Flickr images
- Bookr - photobooks using Flickr images
- Colgate Smile Slide Show - designed for kids to create simple slide shows, drag & drop images
- Flowgram - screencasting
- ipopetz - create a puppet show with audio
- Jog The Web - create a guided tour of your website
- Google Presentations
- MagToo - lots of extras for creating panorama shows, maps, and more
- Mixbook - photobook; collaborative feature
- MyJugaad - create slideshots of websites
- Scrapblog
- Multimedia
- Hot Choice: VoiceThread (VoiceThread 4 Education Wiki) - multimedia (text, images); sharing; audio narration; commenting (audio and text)
- Moblyng - photos, music, and effects; collaborative feature
- Rock You - photos, music, videos
- Splashcast - videos, photos, mp3
- Elluminate - live whiteboard, audio, video, presentations
- Tools
- Camera: Digital video camera, digital camera, cell phone, computer camera
- Video Editing: Mac iMovie, Windows MovieMaker, Adobe Premiere
Examples of Embedded Slide Shows
Learn more at High Tech Tools: Video and High Tech Tools: Animation.
Design Projects
- Book Advertisements/Trailers (i.e., Invitation to the Game, Prey, The Squire and the Scroll)
- Public Service Announcements (i.e., service learning, health issues, promotions @the library)
- Special Events (i.e., Dicken MLK Day event, debate, interviews, National Youth Poetry Slam)
- Creative Works (i.e., skits, historical re-enactments, puppet show)
- Demonstrations (i.e., Water Science Experiments, Mixture Analysis)
Classroom Applications - Create videos with existing clips
- BombayTV - write subtitles for movies
- Digital Vaults from NARA - create poster or movie from historical images
- Harvest of History - create a video comparing farming then and now
- Propaganda Filmmaker - create a WWII propaganda film
- Shark Video Mixer from Discovery - create a shark video
- Star Wars Mashup - create your own Star Wars video (use for beginning, middle, end)
- Wildlife Filmaker - create a nature film
Examples
- IPS Bradley - Physical Science Class
- Apple Student Gallery
- Oklahoma Media Festival
- Mabry Film Festival - Best Picture Nominees
- Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories - Check out the StoryKeepers' Gallery
Avoid Wrecks
- Start by exploring and critiquing the work of others.
- Create a tight script and use a student narrator for the best quality production.
- Use a tripod.
- Limit length to 30 second to 3 minute movie.
- Use what you have: cell phones, still cameras, computer cameras (puppet shows)
Pit Stop
You have your choice:
You can do some exploring at
YouTube Channel: Ad Council and ActivityTV
You can explore and try
Go Animate.