a brief video using Google Story Maker – inviting lurkers and everyone to jump in at whatever their comfort level!
Media Makes
Makes that include digital formats such as photography, video, animation, audio, and music
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Makes that include digital formats such as photography, video, animation, audio, and music
a brief video using Google Story Maker – inviting lurkers and everyone to jump in at whatever their comfort level!
Here is my “Where to” Make. Made it my own by creating a project to share with my school community, to encourage students to read over the summer. Summer reading can happen anywhere! I started out with WeVideo but after several tries found that creating slides in Keynote, exporting to iPhoto and creating a movie from my slideshow worked best for me. I licensed this as all rights reserved because I used images from Britannica Image Quest. Our school district pays for this resource so I am licensed to use the images for educational use, but I do not have… Read more »
You can make an animated video using PowToon. PowToon has a few versions. The free and education versions have a logo in the bottom corner and limit the ways you can share and download. I haven’t found it to be a limitation for educational use. I gave this a difficulty rating of 4 because it has a learning curve. Once you figure out how to move and adjust the various factors, it is not difficult, just easy to lose hours of time fiddling with it.
Want to show up in photos with cool people? Put yourself into their photos with Pixlr Editor.
“Thinglink” is a useful free application for creating interactive stories. It allows the user to visualize a “suite” of related ideas that also come together to represent a unified concept. When you use Thinglink, you choose one visual representation, and then identify “nodes” on that image in order to hyperlink those nodes to other media. I used this app for Make Cycle #1 (2014) in order to create a more conceptual “How to….”. I have been thinking about creativity a lot lately – how to nurture it, and how to live by it. Thinglink was a perfect way to represent… Read more »
The NWP Digital_Is website is an emerging and open knowledge base created and curated by its community of members. We gather resources, collections, reflections, inquiries, and stories about what it means to learn and teach writing in our increasingly digital and interconnected world. his Make covers how to create a “Collection” for Digital_Is. Included here is a “How to” video which is a recording of the “geek out” session held by Christina Cantrill & Mia Zamora. In the webinar chat, Christina guides Mia to the completion of her first “Collection” post. It is a pragmatic guide to how to navigate… Read more »
Use the popular sandbox game Minecraft to demonstrate or teach anything.
Used Mozilla Popcorn Maker to remix sushi videos into my own somewhat bizarre ‘how to’ video.
How to make a gif file from a youtube video and add text to the final product.
My attempt at launching a meme where participants can identify ways that we all overlook our own consumption of popular culture while making claims that we are immune to its influence.