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= Animoto =

www.animoto.com "Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.

Simply upload your pictures and video clips, choose your style, add words and music, and click the "produce video" button. Then, Animoto’s cinematic technology does its magic and in minutes brings it all to life with a beautifully orchestrated production you can share family and friends."

Use Animoto as you introduce your lessons to engage students with media, to demonstrate learning at the end of a unit and much more!

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Blabberize

www.blabberize.com



Blabberize is a photo editing tool that creates talking animations from a photo or other image.

Use Blabberize in the classroom to enable students to use text from history and make it come alive. Students can be asked to use Blabberize to demonstrate their content knowledge and to report out research results. Teacher' scan also use Blabberize to engage students in the lesson. media type="custom" key="22576922" Glogster [|www.glogster.com]



Glogster allows users to create interactive graphic blogs or Glogs. Glogs are online multimedia posters ‐ with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. Regular accounts and education accounts offering the basics are free. Upgrade to a Pro account for additional features.

Educators utilizing Glogster EDU’s platform have direct access to individual students through a single portal. Not only can teachers see all student activity within their own Teacher Dashboard, each student can also easily view and manage all of their classes and projects within their Student Dashboard.

Use Glogster in the classroom to enable students to demonstrate their background knowledge, as a final unit project to demonstrate understanding, as a collage or portfolio of student learning - the possibilities are endless! Students can also present their Glogs as practice in public speaking.

Glogster Tools

Wordle www.wordle.net

Wordle is a free application that creates a word cloud from a selection of text that you provide. A “word cloud” is a graphic representation of the most frequently used words in a passage, document, or website.

Use Wordle in the classroom to enable students to make predictions about what they will be learning. Students can write predictions and create word clouds either individually or in collaboration with peers.

Wordle tools