I spent hours yesterday and last night and now today, and I finally made an Animoto and a Voice Thread. I understand how to do it and would be able to teach my students how to use these programs. Voice Thread is best used with photos or power points that are already saved on your hard drive or jump drive. Comments can be made with text, voice and even a pen that you can use to draw on the slide during the "show." The kids will absolutely love this! They are already familiar with power points so they could quickly learn how to upload them into Voice Thread.
These things combined with epals.com could potentially change my ELL classroom this year!!!!
On to Photostory...I love it!!!! Much faster and easier to use than the online apps we have used. I will definitely be able to use this in my personal and professional life. I can see using it as a lead in to a new unit. The kids could watch my photo story or slide show to activate their background knowledge and to really pique their interest. At the end of the year I could have a good bye slide show for my 8th graders. The kids could create their own show using images from the Internet or photos they took for a science project.
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