Multimedia+Creation





Do you or your students want to do a simple touch up to a photo for a project? Add a title perhaps? Take out the red-eye? Aviary at its core is an easily accessible, web-based photo editor. Besides the image editing features, Aviary also features two powerful audio sites that allow you and your students to create and remix their own music.
 * ~ Image Editing ||
 * = Basic Photo Editing ||= Feather ||
 * = Advanced Photo Editing ||= Phoenix ||
 * ~ Audio/Music ||
 * = Beat Creator/Music Creator ||= Music Creator ||
 * =  ||= Audio Editor ||



• Create private student accounts • Manage assignments and projects • Use the image editor, vector editor, audio editor & music creator • All content and images are 100% school safe



Do you want to create excitement in the classroom with students and words? Look to Wordle! Paste in a bunch of text and start creating! Or connect with others discover its numerous classroom applications. For example- //• [|Guess the Wordle] // by Jenuinetech. A Wordle a Day keeps the doctor away...probably not; but it's sure to grab their attention!

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//• Visual display of a child's attributes//

//• Guess the story// __**Tips:**__ • Clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text • Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes • Print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends • Want to keep words together in a word cloud? The answer lies in the tilde sign (~)...insert that character between any words that you want- for example with "Child of God" • Want to save a Wordle to your computer? Take a screen shot of it using Jing, an IWB screen capture feature, or other.

Hardy Leung is the creator of Tagxedo, an online tool that turns words- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes- into visually stunning tag clouds. __**Examples:**__ • C heck out the gallery and note how tightly the words hug the shapes •Share with students The Daily Tagxedo featuring current events, trending topics, or a whimsical idea of the day __**Tips:**__ • Click the pictures and play with them in Tagxedo • Words individually sized highlighting the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text • Save as a jpeg, then print off a poster/banner • Select history at any time to view an earlier version of your project



Animoto offers an amazing alternative to creating a typical slideshow. Sign up for an Educator Account. Then follow the 5 easy steps to create your first Animoto project- very simple and with impressive results. __**Examples:**__ • **//Student-centered//**: Anne Frank Project media type="custom" key="10745860" • //**Teacher-centered**//, //yet student featured//: Highlight a field trip, Grandparent's Day, seasonal classroom party, special events, etc. media type="custom" key="10726250" **__Tips: __** • Sign up for an Educator Account and start creating a full-length slideshow • Select this Student Account link and learn how to create teacher monitored student accounts • Share- Email slideshow to parents or embed on your classroom website • Animoto App for smart phones...create a slideshow on the go • Share- Email slideshow to parents or embed on your classroom website
 * 1) Choose template
 * 2) Add pics (option adding text)
 * 3) Select music...an ample selection of Christian music artists to choose from
 * 4) Add text (optional)
 * 5) Select produce video...Animoto will notify you by email that your video is ready

Bubble.us is a free, online graphic organizer that engages students in the act of visually organizing information. The click and drag interface makes it easy to use and to add more bubbles to you mind map or organizer.

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TIPS:
 * To rename the "sheet," just double click the tab at the top of the page and type in the new name. You will see the name also change in the "Sheets" box on the right hand side of the screen
 * If you make a mistake and want take a bubble "down" a level in importance, just hover it over a sim