Archives For Digital Story Telling

How to Upload an iMovie to Edmodo

kcroy —  October 31, 2012 — 1 Comment

Edmodo has been a wonderful resource for my classroom. As an English teacher, I love that my students can post a paper that they have written and receive feedback from their classmates and teachers, and store their work right on the site. 

My students and I do a lot of digital storytelling. Like many teachers, I “trick” my students into writing by having them create scripts and writings for digital projects. For the longest time I could not figure out how to get an iMovie into Edmodo. Here’s the solution and it’s quick!

I blasted a couple of tweets, took some suggestions, made some modifications, and had a solution in minutes. Twitter is full of amazing educators. (Special thanks to @sjunkins and especially 

How to get your students’ iMovies into Edmdo:

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There is increased speculation amongst Apple rumor blogs that a seven inch iPad could possibly be in the pipeline.

The rumors propose that this smaller iPad will have the identical specifications of the new iPad, including the retina display, just a smaller size. The rumored price for the new device is an amazing $200 to $250. The conjecture for the seven inch iPad is based around a belief that  Apple wants to have even greater dominance in the tablet market and a seven inch tablet would strengthen their hold against competitors like the Kindle Fire, Nook and other devices.  The rumors also point to an October 2012 release. Continue Reading…

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I love reading on the iPad, and iBooks is by far my favorite reading app. In my opinion iBooks has the smoothest user interface and offers the best reading experience. I love that it syncs with my iPhone and I love the ability to search, leave notes, define words, and highlight text. I really get a lot of reading accomplished between my iPad and my iPhone during the day as I wait in lines and other places. (The other reading apps I have downloaded and have used include: Kindle, Nook, and Google Play Books. iBooks trumps them all.) There are some features I like on the other apps and some new ones I’ve dreamed-up I’d like to see added in a future upgrade of iBooks.

Here are my 8 suggestions to improve iBooks:

1) Moveable Bookmark: The red bookmark in the top right corner is great as it always remembers where I am in a book, even when syncing with my iPhone. Sometimes, however, when I open my book I have to hunt around where I am on the page.  I wish the red bookmark was moveable. I would simply drag it down to the paragraph I was reading on the righthand side.
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MACUL 2012 – Reflections on a great EDTech Conference by Andy Losik

 

Boinx iStopMotion software for my Mac was one of my favorite reviews because it was so much fun to use and really let me take my creativity to a new level.  My students have started playing with the software and it really has them dreaming up creative ways to tell their stories digitally and professionally. Well, iStopMotion has brought the entire experience to the iPad, and in my opinion, greatly improved upon an already magical experience. Yes, iStopMotion for the iPad by Boinx Software is that great.  Wired Educator wants this on every classroom iPad. Boom!

iStopMotion for the iPad is selling at an introductory price of $4.99, it will be raised to $9.99 soon.  Even if you haven’t finished reading this review, I’d hit the link and grab at discount. Missed the discount?  It’s still worth the $9.99 price.

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WE Anime

Digital Story Telling is at the forefront of Education and there are many powerful and fun options available on a variety of devices, but until now one genre has been significantly absent, animation. Animation has traditionally been a laborious process and a consumer of time, making it difficult and impractical for a student project in a typical classroom. Until now.

Ever since I saw my first animated film as a child I wanted to make one.  I gave it couple of attempts in high school, but nothing turned out like I wanted. I personally found the process to be difficult and time consuming. My finished project  was lacking. Later, as a veteran English teacher, with a strong interest and background in both art and technology, I continued my search. My students shared their interests in creating an animated story.  Again, I tried many types of software, but nothing came out as we had hoped and it was difficult to learn, and an incredible investment of time. Some of the software I tried was expensive too.

Well, I have finally found the solution; I am proud to review and recommend Anime Studio.

Anime Studio is powerful, easy to use, inexpensive, and

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On the twelfth day of Christmas Wired Educator gave to me…”

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Today is our twelfth and final day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway and today’s gift to you is absolutely cool.

I do not play guitar, and maybe you don’t either, but I have always had a secret dream of learning a song or two and rock one out. I’ve also secretly wished that all of those hours pretending of rocking to Guitar Hero and Rock Band would lead toward some sort of musical talent or benefit.

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