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More cool tools--Animoto and Stixy
October 4, 2007
It's a unique moment in the history of the world of apps. Free tools show up on my radar screen (through RSS and Twitter) nearly everyday. I've discovered a new crop of tools that allow me to communicate and share in ways I couldn't even imagine a mere two years back. And it makes me kinda dizzy.
This week I've been playing around with two apps that seem designed win over the most reluctant technology user.
Animoto recently invaded our school. The nifty, Web-based, slide show app transforms uploaded images into short or feature length music videos. Use music from the selections on the site or import your own soundtrack. Here's a little presentation I created from images on my desktop. It took about 10 minutes to create from idea to publication. Several of our teachers used Animoto to create classroom montages for Back to School Night. Consider how students might use it. Consider student projects with original art and music!
Stixy, another free Web-based app, allows teams of learners, or colleagues, or scholars, or PTA members to share tasks, ideas, and files via virtual bulletin boards called Stixyboards. Users create customized stickynotes, update Word, PDF files; photos, and bookmarks and share bulletin board space viewable only by invited group members. User-friendly, drag-and-drop, customizable widgets make it easy for any newbie to create a content-rich Stixyboard in no time flat!
Posted by Joyce Valenza on October 4, 2007 | Comments (1)
