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Saturday, March 26, 2011

8th grade Prom Decoration Commitee Commercial on April 1st created by Go Animate

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Go Animate is a great site where students can easily create cartoons by typing in their scripts and the cartoon characters will automatically speak it out. There is a difference between Go Animate and GoAnimate4Schools, and there is a more advanced GoAnimate4Schools that my students will be participating in so that they can make longer and more creative animations.   Listed below is an example of the work that I did with this web 2.0 tool

Here is a commercial that I made up for our school in order to get 8th graders to create work for their prom

GoAnimate4Schools.com: Prom Decoration Commercial by James Gorcesky

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate4Schools. It's free and fun!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Best Tools to Digitally Edit Movies with Your Students: Windows Movie Maker

A Free Essential Tool for Your Latest Animation or Digital Storytelling Project

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Over the course of the next few weeks, I would like to discuss a few sources for programs that can be used to edit film and for your students to create forms of digital storytelling in your classroom. Going back to my previous career of an independent film maker, I have used programs such as Windows Movie Maker, Flip Share, IMovie, FinalCut Pro, Ulead Media Studio, Dell Movie Studio, Picasa, Quicktime Pro and there are also some great sites out there such as Jaycut.com and Animoto.com. You can use a variety of software and/or hardware for this project, but for the sake of argument, I have four Flip Cameras, which I purchased through the great web site of www.digitalwish.com, which has one of the best deals to buy two Flip Cameras for the price of one......

 

If you would like to read more, please click here for my Associated content article. And again, thanks so much to everyone for always checking out my stuff so that I can make money off of my writing.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Student Google Sketchup Images

Here is a collection of images that my students made utilizing Google Sketch Up. They got most of their information on the video tutorials provided by Google Sketch Up and they were able to modify and/or use pre-existing models that were uploaded to the Google Sketch Up model library. When the students were done, they also had the option to add their work to the library and share their work with the world.

 

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Toon Doo tutorials: Digital storytelling in the form of embeddable comic books

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Here is a collection of my Jing tutorials that I made up for my students so that they could independently publish their work from ToonDoo into the form of a comic book on our Edmodo site.

 

How to take your completed ToonDoo pages and arrange them into your book

 

 

Once in Toon Doo, click on "Toons" and then "Your Toondoos" Afterwards, click on EDIT under a page and you will be where the video starts

 

 

How to take your completed Toon Doo Book and publish it to edmodo

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

How to use Yodio to make movies with your cell phone

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Using Yodio in Your Classroom to Record Cell Phone Narrations and Create Embeddable Movies

In another article of cell phones in the classroom, in hopes of finding engaging projects with my students, I was informed about a web site called Yodio. With Yodio, you can register your cell phone with their
site to record narrations. Those narrations can then be attached to images in the form of an embeddable movie called a Yodio. By pairing up the audio with the still image, you can also create transitions in between the "tracks" and then publish the film on the Yodio site so that the world can see.

If you would like to read more, click on this link
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7826234/using_yodio_in_your_classroo...

to my associated content page. And again, thanks so much to everyone for clicking so that I can make money off of my writing

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Google Sketch Up video tutorials

Next week we will be utilizing the 3D modeling program called Google Sketchup.  If you would like to download this program from home, it is absolutely free, and it may be something that you are interested in if you like builiding stuff or hope to become an architect or some sort of designer some day.

 

These are the videos that I pulled off of their site, please watch and follow through the creation process as they do so that you can learn how to create buildings and other structures out of shapes and utilizing your new found knowledge of perspective.

 

 

Friday, March 4, 2011

How to create your Yodio movie - a collection of tutorials

Listed below is a collection of videos in order to create your Yodio movie. Just click on the clip and follow it in order to complete yoru film. I can only grade your film if you post it on Edmodo.

 

 

Yodio_Tutorial_-_Converting_your_computer_recorded_narration_and_downloading_it_through_Edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous

If you need help converting your audio file, click on the video above. This shows the process uploading your audio file from the computer and to the Edmodo site, and then downloading the converted MP3 file to yoru computer.

How to create your Yodio movie - a collection of tutorials

Listed below is a collection of videos in order to create your Yodio movie. Just click on the clip and follow it in order to complete yoru film. I can only grade your film if you post it on Edmodo.

 

 

Yodio_Tutorial_-_Converting_your_computer_recorded_narration_and_downloading_it_through_Edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_How_to_Publish_and_Embed_your_Yodio_Movie_into_Edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_-_How_to_record_and_upload_a_narration_with_your_cell_phone_.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_How_to_upload_an_Image.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_-_How_to_upload_your_computer_recorded_MP3_narration_to_the_Yodio_site.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_-_Using_the_computer_to_record_your_narration_with_Audactiy_or_Windows_Movie_Maker.mp4 Watch on Posterous
Yodio_Tutorial_-_How_to_combine_images_and_audio_into_a_Yodio_movie.mp4 Watch on Posterous