Difficulty: Easy/Medium
Pay: Yes Students Required to Create an Account: Yes Web Based: Yes Private Option: Kinda/sorta Submitted How?: Finished and published timelines are visible to the public. Timelines can be embedded into a website, blog or wiki. A link to the timeline is generated. FINAL COMMENTS: This is a fairly simple timeline generator. For timeline projects it works nicely. If you want to see an A to Z timeline, keep in mind that it will need to scroll. If you are OK with that, then this will work great. SAMPLE on Home page. Difficulty: Easy to Hard (Depending on the complexity of the project)
Pay: No Students Required to Create an Account: Yes Web Based: No Private Option: NA Submitted How?: Audio File FINAL COMMENTS: Audacity is a really fun audio editing program. While you can simply record and edit your audio, you can also create an intricate file by layering and editing multiple layers. The only difficulty is LAME. If you get to LAME, then you've mastered the program anyway. Difficulty: Medium
Pay: No Students Required to Create an Account: NA Web Based: No Private Option: NA Submitted How?:Video File FINAL COMMENTS: I have a hate/love/hate relationship with Photostory. It's fairly easy to use, but it has some tricky spots that can cause an immense amount of frustration. I have worked with quite a bit of video editing software. If you are used to the flexiblity of video editing software, you will be frustrated by the limitations of photostory. That said, it's a simple way to create a video story using pictures. |
XTRANORMAL
End Product: Video Cartoon Cost: $10 + # of Students x $0.50 (per month) Location: xtranormal.com Difficulty: Easy
Pay: Yes Students Required to Create an Account: Yes Web Based: Yes Private Option: Yes Submitted How?: Downloadable video. FINAL COMMENTS: Thanks to things like Geico commercials, this great program is no longer free. It's fun and educational. Create debates or lessons using the variety of characters and scenes available. SAMPLE Difficulty: Medium
Pay: No Students Required to Create an Account: Yes Web Based: Yes Private Option: NA Submitted How?: Print out; embed in website, wiki, blog; send link FINAL COMMENTS: As of Oct. 2011, this is relatively new on my radar. It looks to have potential as a combination of Glogster and a Wiki. Nota allows for collaboration on a webpage-like poster. What Nota lacks in bells and whistles it makes up for in flexibility, especially for group projects. An especially nice feature is the notes feature. Viewers/teachers can click any place and make comments. |