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QR codes

They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your mobile phone or tablet. Previously you need to download a qr code reader to your telephone from Google Play, for example QR droid. 
We can generate a qr code from a plain text, a url, a sms, a telephone, a location etc. We can use some qr code generator free from the Internet (unitag, qrcode kaywa).

Here I let you a prezzi presentation where you can see school project with qr codes

KET for schools

https://sites.google.com/a/b06berritzegunea.com/b06ket/

Photo Story 3

Microsoft Photo Story is a free application that allows users to create a visual story (show and tell presentation) from their digital photos. You can download from the Internet if you have Microsoft pack in you computer. Some of the features of this application are:

• You can edit your pictures online
• You can add titles to each picture
• You can narrate your pictures and add motion to them.
• You can customize motion and duration
• You can customize transition
• You can add background music

Some tips to improve our browsers and a useful program.

Browser extensions are small "programs" that let you add new features to your browser. This means that you can customize your browser with the features that are most important to you (from capturing web pages to downloading videos, or correcting text online)

The browsers we are going to use are Mozilla and Chrome. Each of them has its own extension. We are going to see just a few, but if you surf the extension gallery of your browser, you could find the ideal extension for you

How to create your subtitles

VisualSubSync is a subtitle program for creating and modifying subtitles. You only have to download from the net because it is free. You can also get your portable version to take in your USB memory.

Once you have created your subtitles, you can watch the video with them (two different files) when you play the video with the program VLC. If you prefer to embed them in the video file and just create a unique video file, you should use FormatFactory.

It is really much easier to do than it seems. Let's use it!

Here you can see this video with Basque subtitle: Zer egin eta zer ez egin sare sozialetan

Video projects in the classroom

MovieMaker is a free video editor if your operating system is Windows. MovieMaker is a quite intuitive and easy software that allows us to insert images, videos, music and voice recording in your projects. If you are working with very heavy files or your project is long, you should save your project from time to time. The reason is that your computer can crash, and then you will lose all the new changes you have done in the project. You can find a very good tutorial of MovieMaker in this site. It is a very complete material, made by Goio Ramos, a teacher from Ugao Eskola. He prepared the site in Basque in order to be a useful tool for teachers.