Video+Slideshows

There are a lot of nice online tools for creating video slide shows which can be a great alternative to traditional posters or Power Point Presentations and make any project work, presentation or story fun, creative and easily 'sharable' online.

Turn your pictures, videos, text into a beautiful video, with special transitions, effects, text and music.

Tools: Animoto, Photopeach are new, online and easier alternatives to Windows Movie Maker. Six easy ways for students to create a video online The free account on Animoto allows you to create only 30-second videos which is hardly enough for anything. But there is a solution - you can upgrade to a free educator's account. Read how to do it and learn more about Animoto here. || Here are some of Ozge Karaoglu's ideas on integrating Animoto into our lessons:
 * Animoto || Create stunning videos! Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy! || Video tutorial || 'My Day' with Animoto - 30 sec. || Animoto is very easy to use, it's possible to teach young learners to use it on their own; visual; effective.
 * [|Photo Peach] || [|Photo Peach] is a new service that allows you to quickly and easily create an audio slideshow, with captions, from images in your Flickr, Picassa, or Facebook account. You can also use images saved on your local hard drive to create your slideshow.[| Photo Peach] is similar to [|Animoto] and [|Stupeflix] services although they do have some differences worth noting. Adding captions to each image is a little more intuitive on Photo Peach than it is on Animoto. To add captions to your Photo Peach slideshow simply type your desired text into the caption box that appears as each image is automatically displayed by Photo Peach. Changing the order of appearance for each image is also easier on Photo Peach than it is on Animoto. Changing the sequence of images in Photo Peach is a simple drag and drop procedure. || Tutorial ||  ||   ||
 * Children can create biographies or they can create 30 second advertisements.
 * They can write short poems on different topics and share them with music.
 * They can advertise books or create short trailers for their schools shows or for films/books/cities.
 * Animoto can be used for introducing each other at the very first weeks of schools.
 * Children can use Animoto instead of a powerpoint for projects.