Share your presentations and documents with Slideshare.
As with many ways of sharing media, there is a basic free version and a ‘pro’ option that you subscribe to but has more features. For uploading slideshow presentations it is free. These can be public or private and there is the facility for commenting.
Presentations can be embedded in your blog, so you can use Slideshare to make lessons available to pupils at anytime or as a showcase of pupil work.
This looks brillant. I’ll admit now, I haven’t tried it yet. But I did watch the ‘How to…’ video below and can think of several ways this software could be used in the classroom.
Muvizu allows you to create 3D animations using a variety of characters and scenes – all customisable. You choose camera angles, lighting and direct your characters down to the eye movements. This would be a brilliant way to show stories the pupils have written or recreate stories they have heard.
You have to be 13 to join Muvizu but teachers can open ‘gatekeeper’ accounts that enable you to have full control over what pupils are doing. Once videos have been published they can be rated and be commented on.
Once you have created your masterpiece you save it to your computer and there is an inbuilt option to upload it straight to YouTube to embed in your blog.
It’s easy to forget fairly obvious things when trying to be creative!
One of the ways to introduce video to your blog is with YouTube. You can create an account for your class or school and embed videos in blog posts.
This may be a good option for showing video that children have created themselves rather than using some of the fancy extras that other programmes provide.
Domo Animate is a brilliant site from Domo Nation that lets you create short animations. There is a huge selection of characters, scenery, props and sounds. It really is worth having a play with. Characters’ positions, movements and expressions can be selected and scenes added.
You can create animations without signing up but if you want to save and share, or post to your blog, you have to register. This is free though.
There is also a feature available for creating a slideshow but this doesn’t seem to work at the moment so there’ll be another post later!
DomoNation.com: Doggy Love by MollyB
Like it? Create your own at DomoNation.com. It’s free and fun!
Audioboo is an application that allows you to record and share sound files. It is available for Android and iOS devices and users can upload audioboos via a mobile device, on the website or via email.
Blog posts don’t have to be written. Pupils can read their post, share interviews or radio shows. Audio posts can be a really quick way of recording and uploading an event to your blog.
Eg.
http://welldone.heathfieldcps.net/2012/12/03/jessica-evaluates-nurture-group/