iTech April 2008

Here' s a sampling of some of the things that I showed our itech participants today.

Animoto- is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button. Users simply choose a song and upload their images and Animoto does the rest. Animoto automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same! As an educator we get the full access! The teachers in our iTech session raved about how easy it was to create a full length MTV-ish video!

Mystudiyo- allows you to create a professional looking quiz for your website or blog. Simply add your own content to the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) quiz templates and create a customized quiz for your audience. After you’ve created your quiz, copy and paste a few lines of HTML into your website and you’re ready to go!

Yakitome- allows you to upload any pdf, word, txt, rss feed, website, and e-mail and convert it to speech. The service currently supports English, French and Spanish and you can select from a number of different voices supplied by AT&T. You can choose between MP3 or WAV file formats to suit your needs. Teachers in essence could upload their class notes from the day and convert it to a voice podcast that could be accessed on the teachers website.

I'm looking for some other creative ways in which to use these three resources in the classroom. Any thoughts?