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.

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!

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)

Answer this!

How do you see yourself using blogging in your classroom? What are some obstacles that you may have to overcome? What will you need to be successful?

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