Move beyond traditional presentations and have students create videos and share them with their class and around the world.
Benefits
Encourages creativity and collaboration
Allows students more freedom
Opportunity to share videos around the world and receive feedback
Provides a voice for students
Encourages creativity and collaboration
Allows students more freedom
Opportunity to share videos around the world and receive feedback
Provides a voice for students
Tools
Animoto is a free, web-‐based tool that allows users to create presentation videos using images, video, music and text. It is extremely easy to use as most of the video editing is done automatically allowing users to focus on higher order skills and content creation. Videos can be easily shared by downloading, embedding or sharing a link.
How to use Animoto |
Jing is a simple and free tool that provides users with the ability to create images and videos of what they see on their computer screen. It also makes it easy to share the images and videos using many different popular methods, such as email, Twitter, and YouTube. Jing is used in conjunction with Screencast.com to share videos via email, web link or social media.
How to use Jing |
Educreations is a free tool that functions as an interactive whiteboard and recording tool. It can be used with on an iPad or web-based version. Educreations allows users to upload images, add text and narration to create videos that can be easily shared via email, Facebook, Twitter or embedded on a website. Teachers can create classes so that videos created by the teacher, as well as students, can be saved to the class account.
How to use Educreations Digital Storytelling with Educreations |
Aurasma is an augmented reality platform that is available for smartphones and tablets. This image recognition technology uses a device's camera to recognize real world images and then overlay media on top of them in the form of animations, videos, 3D models and web pages. Students can use Aurasma to create and share their own augmented reality experiences as well as to discover hidden digital content. How to use the Aurasma app Teaching with Aurasma |