Multimedia

Helpful Tools for Creating Multimedia Projects
[|Educational Videos and Lessons K-12]

[|ThisMoment]..........You just have to see this concept; better than animoto?

[|Animoto] Upload photos - this site makes the movie and adds music for you! Sign up for a free educator acct.

[|Format Factory]

[|Kerpoof] Like online kidpix or hyperstudio - paint, draw, write make cards,etc

[|Download and convert UTube videos] for use in presentations....respect copyright, please. This will allow you to use these videos in a ppt or keynote even when an internet connection is not available.

[|Scrapblog] This very cool tool lets you make an scrapbook with your photos and allows posting online. YOu can then link to t from your page! [|FotoFlexer]- online photo editor - upload and work online -free really neat effects for kids and fun teachers! Can store images here as well. Good for resizing and for getting rid of background layers in photos

[|Picnik] - Another online photo editor much like Fotoflexer

[|Image Well] Download this and put in your dock. So handy when resizing a photo for your home page! Simple.No longer free.

[|Voice Thread]- repeated here as a site that works for multimedia threaded discussion

[|You Convert It] - A great site for converting many things, but especially video file formats.

Some sources of"free" music and video for presentations

Tools for formats, files, ppt, and web pages:
[|ispring]: Convert ppt to flash video for use on a web site.

[|Vixy]: Download and convert UTube movies to different formats. Look at the bottom right of page as top is broken currently.

[|Slideshare]:The best place to share presentations online for free. Now download a plugin so options to upload here show up in the PPT menu bar. Also possible to upload Keynote presentations to this site.