Make Beliefs is another awesome comic strip creation tool. It resembles Pixton for they both provide their users with a variety of tools to edit and generate their cartoons. Make Beliefs provides a set of features that are completely free . Students would love to work a platform such as Make Beliefs'. This will encourage them to collaborate with each other in writing, drawing and colouring. Their creative powers will also be fostered and a healthy learning environment can be created out of a good use of these comic strip tools.
Audio & Video Tools for Educators
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Robin Good: Chill, the video sharing and discovery site, has just introduced a new feature that allows anyone to clip and share, on a Pinterest-like thematic board, all of the video clips he finds on the web.
The new Chill bookmarklet works very much like the Pinterest one. When you click it, a page shows you all of the video clips found in that page and offers you to clip and "post" the one you want, with your comments.
It's as easy as that.
The generated "curated" Chill video boards are easy to scan and browse, though, in my view, a great boon would be the ability to check a few of those videos and to click a play button that plays them full screen back to back. This way I have the best of curated content, my own selection, and the final lay-back and watch gratification option.
Very promising.
Go try it out now: http://chill.com/bookmarklet Via Robin Good 
Robin Good: OneLoad lets users upload a video once and have it syndicated throughout multiple platforms.
"OneLoad is a video distribution service for brand
The service, which was originally part of the TubeMogul service, in now fully independent.
Key features include: Create custom feeds for iTunes, Yahoo! And other MRSS feed readers Easily create and automate customized video distribution venues (predefined sets) Powerful reporting dashboard to view, compare and contrast viewership information on your videos across video-sharing sites - Analytics include views, comments and ratings trended over time Choose any frame from your video to be the thumbnail image Instead of uploading a video file to OneLoad manually, enter a URL where the file is already hosted Add and remove videos from any video sharing site immediately or according to your pre-set schedule. A free basic accout allows you to deploy up to 100 times the clips you have uploaded ((i.e. one video distributed to five sites counts as five video deployments).
Pricing info: http://www.oneload.com/solutions/features
Find out more: http://www.oneload.com/ Via Robin Good 
iPiccy is a very simple easy to use, feature rich online image editor. You can start using it without even registering. Very useful for simple cropping, adding effects or more complex edits. Via Nik Peachey 
Robin Good: If you are looking for an easy solution to your need to either download or convert YouTube videos, WonTube has a solution that works well while being fully integrated with your preferred browser.
Very useful. 9/10
Downloadable versions: An Android version of the video downloader is also available here: http://www.wontube.com/free-youtube-downloader.html as well as free desktop versions for PC and Mac video converter tool http://www.wontube.com/free-video-converter.html
More info: http://www.wontube.com/ Via Robin Good 
tumblecloud is a place for collaborative digital storytelling, where users can easily arrange, display, co-create, share and manipulate multimedia content. Via Yuly Asencion
Make Beliefs is another awesome comic strip creation tool. It resembles Pixton for they both provide their users with a variety of tools to edit and generate their cartoons. Make Beliefs provides a set of features that are completely free . Students would love to work a platform such as Make Beliefs'. This will encourage them to collaborate with each other in writing, drawing and colouring. Their creative powers will also be fostered and a healthy learning environment can be created out of a good use of these comic strip tools. 
This tutorial will show you how to remove YouTube's logo from YouTube embedded players and video embeds.
You can now disable the YouTube watermark branding. Via Hayden Richards, Robin Good Videodropper lets you send YouTube videos directly to your Dropbox folder, so that you can watch them later at your leisure. You can also choose to optimize videos for viewing in an iPhone/iPod Touch. 
We’re often asked here at Zamzar how you can embed videos into Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, to give them that extra "wow" factor. Via Steve Yuen 
Not only do charts, graphs and maps show up on standardized tests of all kinds, but whiteboard technology has made the graphic depiction of information that much more useful and ubiquitous in classrooms. Via Nik Peachey 
Skrip.it is a very simple and effective free tool to automatically creates a 1-minute video clip that flies through some of your key visual memories for 2011.
Skrip.it, a service of Stupeflix, taps into your Facebook collection of photos from the past year and it mixes and matches it to your preferred music track (needs to be uploaded) or to one of the ready-made ones the service offers you to use.
In less than a couple of minutes your video mashup is ready to be viewed and shared online with your friends and social media contacts with nothing to pay or register.
Nice. 7/10
Try it out now: http://skrip.it/ Via Robin Good 
One of the most difficult things to develop when you are alone is your speaking. Speaking is of course also one of the most useful skills, so in this activity you will find out how to practice your speaking by keeping a video diary using a free online service called Keek. Via Nik Peachey |
Robin Good: If you want to be able to view just about any video format out there, while controlling every single feature of it, there is nothing better and more cost-effective than Videolan. Now out in a new completely revamped version 2.
Key new features include:
VIDEO Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU. Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits. New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2. New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters. New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.AUDIO New resamplers for higher quality audio. New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters. Simplification of the audio core for faster processing. New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.FORMATS Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM. Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs. Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp... Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support. CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.INPUT AND DEVICES Experimental support for BluRay discs: - Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon). - AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons. Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices. Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.Download Mac, Windows and Linux new 2.0 version here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html#download
Find out more: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html Via Robin Good Trascribe is a free online tool to help you with transcription of interviews or other audio files easily. Via Steve Yuen 
Redux is the best way to lean back and discover online video. Enjoy hundreds of channels of entertaining, hand-picked, critically selected videos, all from a passionate community of curators. 
This is a free software tool which runs on MAC or Windows and allows you to download and convert videos to a range of formats suitable to run on mobile or desktop devices. Via Nik Peachey 
Witty Comics is a cool website. It allows its users to create two characters dialogues. This is a great learning tool for students. They love cartoons and comics and are much more inclined to learn via dialogues and interactive play roles. Teachers can use Witty Comics to create dialogues underlining the target structures they want to teach and let students act them out. Students can on their part use Witty Comics to create thier own dialogues and rehearse them in front of their peers. Witty Comics is a good tool to foster students communicative skills and enhance their creative powers. 
Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics. Pixton has also a growing community that anyone can access to contribute with their own comics. This tool is very easy to use and does not require any artistic skills to work on it. You can introduce it to your students and let them create their own comics and share it with each other. 
EmbedPlus lets you easily edit and watch upgraded video embeds with enhanced playback and relevant content.
Chapter Marking Like DVD chapter buttons, click these to skip to marked times. Use the wizard to mark notable parts like game highlights, changing performers, and lecture sections.
Sweet Spot Marking Helps you catch the best parts of a video by revealing the scenes that are generating the most buzz by other viewers. You can also use it for your creative/marketing efforts or just for your curiosity.
Crop Crop, Cut, Splice, Chop (or how ever else you prefer to pronounce it). Plays the interesting part of a video you decide.
Real-time Reactions Discussions about a video occur in many places. Optionally enable this button to show viewers the latest Internet reactions, right inside the player. Currently showing YouTube comments and Twitter feeds.
Third Party Annotations Add your own timed annotations to any video. Use it to display titles, captions, scene labels, and side comments during playback.
Slow Motion On-Demand Instantly watch videos at a slower rate to more clearly see what happens. Use it for videos with sports highlights, demos, tricks, and raw footage.
Movable Zoom Added accessibility. Dynamically magnifies the area you point over. Use it to get a close look at objects, writing, and things like moving athletes.
Instant Replay / Loop Replay an event soon after it happens. Also double-click to loop the replay.
More info: http://www.embedplus.com/ Via Robin Good 
WeVideo lets you tell your story with video. Our online video editing platform is affordable, simple to use, and uniquely collaborative. Learn more today. Via Steve Yuen 
In the first instalment of his brand-new series, Nik Peachey looks at podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on podcasting, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide. Via Nik Peachey 
Quick Screen Share is the simplest and easiest solution to share your screen with someone else without spending a dime.
Just head to http://quickscreenshare.com/ type your name and click start. A Java plug-in will need to be authorized and after it loads you will be given a URL which you can give out to your contact.
Key features in summary: - No registration required and completely free. - Nothing to install for sharer or sharee.
(Reviewed by Robin Good) Via Robin Good 
Everyone's Mixtape is a new web-based service allowing anyone to create his own music compilation by simply selecting and organizing their favorite music tracks on YouTube, Soundcloud and Vimeo.
See a simple video tutorial that shows you how easy this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PAN13R3arnc#!
You can also chose to make your mixtapes "collaborative" allowing others to add their own tracks to your compilation.
Recommended. 9/10
Find out more or start using it now: http://everyonesmixtape.com/ Via Robin Good 
Sharing ideas visually is no new concept. A hundred years ago, teachers used chalkboards. Then, with the invention of the smelly, dry erase marker, we upgraded our boardrooms and classrooms with shiny whiteboards. |
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