Animoto is an easy-to-use video/slideshow/animation app. You can sign up as a teacher and get 50 educational accounts to share with your students. This allows them to create videos up to 5 mins long for free (whereas the limit is 30 sec for the free regular access). See one of the digital literacy coaches if you need support on how to create students accounts etc.
Tiki Toki is an interactive timeline that allows students to integrate visuals, information and links to other presentations. It supports some complexity in content and scope. The product looks great and they have fun working with it. Here is an example of Ms. Davies' Hum 8 class projects about the Decline of the Middle Ages. Cube Creator This little interactive tool helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity (examples are for story cubes, mystery cubes, bio cubes and make-your-own cubes). Includes graphic organizer sheets as well. Storify: make the web tell a story. Four ways to use Storify in the classroom: (includes examples and how-to)
Voicethread OR Ed.voicethread for K-12 (network for K-12 only)
Pixton for schools. Students use this comic creation tool to tell stories, individually or collaboratively. Share with the group or beyond. Subject area examples of Pixton. |
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