I recently attended a professional development with Kathleen Odean, The Best Nonfiction Adult Books. If you haven't attended a professional development with Kathleen Odean or hosted a professional development in your consortium I highly recommend it. She is full of resources & knowledge.
In her presentation she suggested many available free resources including Flickr, Animoto, and Voki and had created examples. So, I was pleased to see a number of these resources recommended by Cool Tools for School.
The first tool I explored for Digital Storytelling & Presentation Tools is Animoto. I am very impressed by this tool. I've been using PowerPoint for presentations since college and this is definetly the next level of Picture/Video presentation. I've created the video and shared it on my blog, so let me know what you think?
I will most surely incorporate this tool into my ELA class in conjunction with PowerPoints and again I feel that this will be a useful tool for book presentation, book shares, culminating projects, character analysis and much more.
Voki is the second tool I reviewed. I am probably sounding like a broken record, but I'm excited about this tool also. With the population I work with (all boys) they are often reluctant to present oral information in front of the class and this is a great way to work around that. Book Talks... Yes!
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