DVolver

This evening, my husband and are going to see a play, but I had about 20 minutes to spend playing around before we leave. He's making Glog (Swedish Spiced Wine) for a holiday party. I thought I'd play with some of the tools that Russell Stannard at the University of Newcastle in the UK lists on his site. I found out about his site thanks to Kathy Schrock's Educator's Guide. One of the tools he links to is Dvolver. Here is the lamest video ever made with the "Movie Maker" tool below. Hollywood might not come knocking, but I can think of some great uses for it:

1. Language learning via dialogue composition.

2. Sequence of events writing for younger students.

3. Illustration of a scientific principle (explaining how photosynthesis happens, etc.)

What else?

Jing Screencasts

I wish I could remember how I found out about this, but there is a free online tool that allows you to create your own screencasts. It's called the Jing Project. It's likely it'll cost money sometime soon, so try it out while you still can! I'm using it to create some professional development videos for my staff...quick little reminder movies to refresh returning staff's memories about how to move their curriculum maps to the current year, how to add items to their pages on our parent portal, etc.

The downside: You do have to download something. It's not all online. As soon as I can get one uploaded, I'll save it here, as well.