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SlideShare & YouTube

SlideShare, the popular site for sharing slide presentations, now lets users embed YouTube videos in their presentations. Just upload your slideshow as usual. From the edit screen, there’s now an option for embedding up to 5 videos per presentation. Very easy to do. More info available on the SlideShare blog. Here’s my very quick test. [...]

TED Talk: Creativity & Play

Great presentation from the TED Talks. Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play Talked about the need to engage in: playful exploration playful building playful roleplaying Started with an exercise – asked the audience to take 30 seconds to draw a picture of the person sitting next to them. The audience was full [...]

Awesome Teen Read Week Video

Teen Read week was last month, but you could make this kind of great book teasers video anytime. From readergirlz. Created with Microsoft Movie Maker. What fun.

Wordia – a video dictionary

This is way more fun than the vocabulary flash cards we used back in 3rd grade. Wordia is a collection of short videos submitted that explain the meaning of a word. Anyone can submit a video, some are casual, some goofy, some are a bit serious. But most of the ones I watched really did [...]

A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator

In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year.  That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool. Like all the tools at bighugelabs, [...]

Animoto Offer – Another Great Back to School Deal!

Animoto is once again offering educator accounts with a free upgrade to the “all access pass” that let’s you create longer videos. Other features to enhance classroom use include a way to create ‘dummy’ accounts for students under age 13, ability to keep classroom videos private and individual accounts for everyone in your classroom. Animoto [...]