Creating a slideshow was fun! Having the capability to upload pictures from your own picture file to a video is “cool” as my students say. I used Animoto to create a video of pictures taken on my field trip to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Click here to view the video of God’s Amazing Animal Creations. It took a while to upload my personal photos. However, in reading information on the website, it was noted that it took longer to download because the picture sizes were too large. Recommendations were made for changing the size of the pictures before downloading.
In Thing #11, using Flicker, I went on a virtual vacation in Hawaii. Slide was used to make a slideshow of the pictures from that virtual vacation. The slideshow is entitled Linda\’s Hawaiian Virtual Vacation
Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Hawaii Mountain Temple-http://flickr.com/photos/divemasterking2000/493535386/
Photo 2: Hawaii Surf’s Up-http://flickr.com/photos/taiger808/380294355/
Photo 3: Hawaii (Kauai) Napoli Coast II-http://flickr.com/photos/jeepeenyc/1297480879/
Photo 4: Hawaii Art by Music Uncle-http://flickr.com/photos/rjmalfalfa/1350167540/
Photo 5: Akaka Falls, Big Island-http://flickr.com/photos/virgomerry/523848528/
Photo 6: Palm Jungle
Photo 7: Rabbit Island
Photo 8:Hawaiian Sunset
Also, it would be interesting to have the students develop a slideshow that retells a story in their own words, similar to the slideshow created by Ms. Paul about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They could take pictures of school activities to include in the slideshow. The slideshow could be posted on the our class website or class Wiki for the parents to hear about a school day in the words of the students. In addition to the slideshow options provided, Photostory would be an option to use in which students’ voices would be recorded to retell a story.
