Google Docs – a useful collaborative tool
Google Docs is a simple online word processor (and spreadsheet) with basic functions. With a decent online connection it responds quickly and can be used as a place to store documents. One of its...
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Comic Life for Windows
Comic Life is a popular program on the mac which lets you create comic strip stories very easily. The company is working on a Windows version and has released a free beta version for testing. It seems...
View ArticleSCRATCH – Animation and programming for kids
I’m just catching up on this. Thanks to Neil Winton’s post. SCRATCH is a free program which lets kids create animations by using a simple programming language. It seems to be quite powerful and, apart...
View ArticleMonkeyJam – Stop Motion Animation
Many teachers use the Digital Blue Movie Creator for stop motion animation. Although it is easy and fun to use, it has some limitations, particularly the quality of the output. MonkeyJam lets you...
View ArticleTales Animator
Yet another animation program. Tales Animator uses a scripting language to animate figures to produce good looking cartoons. The scripting language is fairly easy to use but would be too difficult for...
View ArticleEmbedding TeacherTube Videos
If you use TeacherTube (discussed here) to store pupil videos, you can easily link to them on your blog (or website). For WordPress and Edublogs blogs just follow this advice - Q: How can I embed a...
View ArticleCamtasia Studio 5 – user experience
Andrew Brown’s Captivate series introduced me to a number of facilities in the program which I hadn’t fully appreciated. However, there are times when still images aren’t good enough for training...
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Talking Photo
PQDVD have developed software which appears to be like Crazy Talk but much cheaper. Seems to be worth a look.
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