Friday, January 30, 2009

SpongeBob and Education - What's the Connection?

Who knew SpongeBob and educators had so much in common? I would love to hear some reflections on this episode and how it relates to the pressure educators face.








Video obtained from: Google Video; http://tinyurl.com/cuazyt

Animoto

Forget using Powerpoint to create slideshows - the hours you spend on timing and music can now be put to better use! Use Animoto! Create an account, upload your pictures, choose your music, and sit back while the awesome Animoto people do their work and create a video montage! Perfect for those end of school year videos! Find a collection of images to create a video on biomes, geometry, historical events, vocabulary, science labs - the possiblities are endless.


Speechable



Speechable is a fun and easy site where your students can upload an image (I like to use Discovery Streaming) and add speech bubbles and text.



Thursday, January 29, 2009

Big Huge Labs


Big Huge Labs - one of my favorites! A great site to jazz up any of your images - from making motivational posters to trading cards. Fun and easy to do!

Image hosted @ bighugelabs.com

I love Code!

ClassTools is a great site for interactive flash template that you can embed into your blog.





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Embedding



Embedding video is so easy - For example, if you have a video from TeacherTube - click on the video - find the 'Embeddable' code - copy this 

Open up your blog - New Post - paste code (make sure your 'edit html' tab is selected)