What's on first?

What first up for creating multimedia? I am not entirely sure, but I found a new entry for Top 5 Cool multimedia tools on the web. The website xtranormal.com allows you to generate your own 3D movies with custom dialog and set pieces of animation.

This could be a phenomenal tool allowing students to storyboard and develop ideas for creating their own filmed movies. A teacher could also heighten media literacy by allowing students a chance to direct their own sequence which would heighten awareness of the tricks and techniques filmmakers use to create drama or move a story along.

Additionally foreign language could write dialog in the language their are learning. English teachers could use this to help teach dialog as well. A final interesting feature is that you are allowed to remix other videos which enables you to put your own twist on an idea without starting from scratch

Happy movie making!

Multimedia Online Timers

I loved using timers in class and had a couple of them that could be used on the old overhead projectors, but when I made the switch to an LCD projector I was always frustrated I didn't have a good timer to display on the screen.  Well thanks to the web and my network of connected friends, I have a few.

One of them is Fiery Ideas online flash timer: http://www.fieryideas.com/flash/timer.swf

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Another tool that allows you have a count down timer is the ZoomIt tool from Microsoft.  This tool is a presenter's dream.  More in a future post.

Finally, another favorite is http://www.online-stopwatch.com/online-countdown/ This one has all sorts of great features and various different types of timers and stopwatches.

Happy clocking!