Multimedia


 * Multimedia and Digital Storytelling Tools**
 * ===**[|Voice Thread]**- capture audio for online digital storytelling. THIS IS A MUST HAVE! This is one of the best tools for reaching the needs of all the learners in our classrooms, for all content areas from K-12. The pro version is free to K-12 educators. Make sure you watch the excellent tutorials to take advantage of all the features this tool has to offer.===

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Click the link for some examples to show you how other educators are using Voice Thread for Education.
 * ===**[|Kerpoof]**- Make a Movie. [|Watch the tutorial here.]===


 * **[|Photo Story 3 for Windows]** - you will be amazed at how quickly you can create slide shows or movies from your class photos. Upload your photos in seconds, easily add music and you have a year end presentation of your class activities. MANY other uses. [|Download PhotoStory for Windows XP] **David Jakes** has created an excellent [|**PhotoStory 3 Tutorial Resource**.]


 * ===**[|Photo Peach]** - even easier than Photo Story and it's online so it doesn't matter what computer platform you are using. Import photos, write captions, add music, done! The spiral effect is cool. [|Watch the demo here]. [|PhotoPeach for Educators.]===


 * ===**[|Animoto]** - create fully customized videos of user-selected images and music almost instantaneously. The web application does all the work once you select your images and audio. EASYT This one is so cool! [|Animoto For Educators]===

//FotoBabble examples// (Click the Play button to hear the audio):
 * ===**[|FotoBabble]** - create talking photos, EASY===


 * ===[|Mixbook for Educators] - easily create photo books (fee to print books)===
 * ===**[|ScrapBlog-]**Create online multimedia scrapbooks from your text, video, audio and photos===
 * ===**[|Storybird]** - collaborative storytelling===


 * ===**Xtranormal**- Text-to-Movie, especially powerful for students on the autism spectrum===
 * ===**[|Story Maker]** - create fairy tales, great for young students.===
 * **[|MagicStudio]** -Create interactive visual resources to reinforce instruction or to allow students to demonstrate what they know using web-based tools. Can also create quizzes and timelines. [|Watch the tour here].
 * ===**[|Pikistrips.com]** - Easily create free photo trips, show pictures, FREE===


 * [|Building Wings: How I Made it Through School]l - A free "[|Readers Theater Implementation Toolkit]" accompanies this autobiography by Don Johnston "which helps learners take charge of their learning potential!" Learned about this from Valerie who left a comment.
 * 50 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo)

[|Described and Captioned Media Program]: free media loans (captioned and described) and advice and tools for captioning media