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.

AudioPal

AudioPal is a web 2.0 tool. We can create an audio message for your website in 3 easy steps. You can record your voice by phone, by micro, you can use the text-to-speech option or upload the audio file from your computer. 

It is very easy!

AudioPal creates your audio file and sends you by email. It is not necessary to register. 

New year, new ideas

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 Here again prepared for the new school year. We met last Monday and spent a good time. Although the technology didn’t work as it should, we could manage to fulfil our task.

In this first session we have learned about DESCRIPTION. It is a topic that is learnt in all levels of education.

Here I share the presentation we saw. I hope to be helpful. 

Monday, 27 May

This Monday is the last class of this year so we will comment on what you have done this school year, we will assess this seminar and we will talk and decide about next year´s proposals.