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=== Animoto Blog Capzles Glogster Google Earth [|Screencast] TimeRime ToonDoo Xtranormal ===

ActivInspire Flipchart ** ActivInspire ** is educational software loaded on your tablet that enables teachers to lead their classes via their interactive, multi-media whiteboards.Students and teachers alike can create interactive “flipcharts” that can be manipulated at the board. They can also elicit responses from students via the virtual device (ActivEngage) on their computers.

Blog(First person narrative) A Weblog or “blog” is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal. A blog can be used for posting information and assignments, holding discussions, showcasing student work and communicating with parents.

__Capzles__ Timeline ** Capzles ** allows users to create and share free, interactive timelines that integrate pictures, video clips, audio tracks and text.

Digital Story ( Animoto, Voicethread ) ** Animoto ** is a web site that allows you to create videos by uploading your own photos, video clips and music. Animoto then uses its “ Cinematic Artificial Intelligence” technology to analyze and combine your material into a short video, similar to a trailer. ** Voicethread ** is a digital-storytelling application that allows users to share their stories through audio, images, videos or text.Visitors can make comments in five different ways: using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). The stories can be shared with anyone in the world or they can be kept private for selected individuals.

Glogster Interactive Poster ** Glogster ** allows users to create free, interactive multimedia posterscontaining text, audio, video and images. A “glog” (short for graphical blog) looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.

Google Earth ** Google Earth ** combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Use GE to help your students connect to your content: locations discussed in literature, current and historic events, latitude and longitude, geography, geometry, and much more.

Movie (Windows Live Moviemaker) ** Windows Live Movie Maker ** is a video editing program on your tablet that makes it easy for both students and teachers to create polished looking videos. It can be used to make movies, tutorials, digital stories, slideshows, video logs and a virtually endless list of student and projects.

Screencast in ActivInspire A **screencast** is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture. Students can use screencasts to create projects to view anywhere they have web access. The **ActivInspire** software on your tablets contains a screen recorder tool that allows you to create screencasts.

__TimeRime__ Timeline **TimeRime** allows users to create, compare and upload interactive multimedia timelines that include text, images, audio, and video.

__ToonDoo__ Comic ** ToonDoo ** lets students create their own comic strips with just a few clicks, drags and drops.You can publish, share, discuss, recommend, bookmark and embed your creations anywhere on the internet. ** ToonDooSpaces **, a service of Toondoo.com, is aimed at facilitating safe and secure use of ToonDoo as an educational tool.

Xtranormal Animated Video ** Xtranormal ** is a website that allows users to create animated text-to-speech videos by scripting and uploading the dialog and choosing from a menu of camera angles and predesigned characters and scenes.