I have found a few new resources and want to get them up before the semester ends and I forget or lose track of these excellent resources.
http://stripgenerator.com/ Another great E-Comic site that allows comic blogging as well. I think it could be used in conjunction with a restricatable blog site to allow your students to create blog strips for regular concise writing practice.
www.emints.org Professional development for educators by educators, interesting start.
www.fykz.com Hong Kong Movies for subtitling
That is it for today, but I have so much more to share.
I can't wait for next year. I plan to do an entire semester of work with Xtranormal. There are people at the men's college who heard about it from my presentation (or from attendees... thanks guys!) who are now using it prolifically! I am so excited and can't wait to see what comes of this. These tools are a great way to motivate, to excite, and to produce so much in the way of language.
Xtranormal is also being examined at the lower elementary levels by teachers here in the UAE as well. I am so glad to have spread the news. It is exciting to know that your sharing is going somewhere.
Thursday
Sunday
Handouts for E-Comics & E-Movies
E-Comics & E-Movies : A collection of E-Learning Applications
Presentation Outline
A. E-Comics
a. http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
b. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
c. Comics in Word/PowerPoint
B. E-Movie
a. www.dfilm.com
b. www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php
c. www.xtranormal.com
Information from the presentation URL:
http://presentationinformation.blogspot.com/
Additional References and Resources
http://www.tech4esl.blogspot.com
http://Esl.adultinstruction.org -Barry Bakin
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
A. Make Beliefs Comix
1. Visit http://www.makebeliefscomix.com.
2. Enter the site.
3. Choose from the different characters.
4. Choose an emotion for the character.
5. Click on the character to move it to the panel.
6. Move the character around in the panel window.
7.Click on the talk balloon and choose the size you want
8. Click on the balloon to place it in the panel.
9. Write in the balloon in the panel to add words.
10. When you choose the tool buttons, you click on the button and then on the object that you want to effect.
11. Don’t forget to choose a background colour for your panels.
12. Finally, print it or send it in an email.
13. For the workshop, please show the person next to you.
14. Don’t forget to check out the teacher’s resource page for 21 ways to use the comics in class.
B. Read Write and Think Comics.
1. Visit http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
2. You will be prompted to name the cartoon, add a subtitle, and your name.
3. You will be asked to choose the number of panels you wish to use.
4. Use the sheets of paper below the panel to choose the characters, the speech balloons and any prompts that you may want.
5. Choose the arrows at the top to move from panel to panel if you choose more than one.
6. With this site you will only be able to print it. There is no email option. It also does not give you a full preview.
This is really easy, quick, and fun for students to do!
C. PowerPoint/Word Clipart Comics.
1. Open Microsoft Office Word.
2. Click on Insert Clip Art
3. Find an acceptable image
4. You may need to adjust the image size
5. Insert a speech balloon
6. Write the spoken words in a regular speech balloon.
7. Edit the text in the speech balloon. Write thoughts in a thought bubble.
8. If you are using PowerPoint then several slides can be printed on one page using the handout option.
D. Dvolver Movie Maker
1. Visit http://www.Dfilm.com
2. Enter the site.
3. Choose the movie maker bubble.
4. Click on MovieMaker v2
5. Choose a background and a sky.
6. When you are finished choose next.
7. Next choose a plot.
8. Choose your two characters and click next.
9. Write what the characters say.
10. Choose the background music.
11. Preview the finished movie.
12. Email the finished movie to yourself.
Dfilm/Dvolver is currently working on a “school safe” version of their film maker that will remove the “sexy” characters (they will be putting on more clothes!), and the inappropriate settings and make this a more appropriate tool for our students. Please check out this product and watch for the updated version for our students!
E. Bombay TV
1. Visit the website http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?lang=uk
2. Select the movie scenes you want to use.
3. Add the subtitles you want.
4. Type your name.
5. Type in your email.
6. Type in the email of a friend (or teacher) you want to send the movie to.
7. Click Send.
F. Football TV
1. This is an extra but still useful program I have added to the handout for your reference.
2. Visit http://www.grapheine.com/futeboltv/
3. Click on a ball to view the scene.
4. Drag the scenes you want to the row of circles on the bottom of the box.
5. After you have clicked on a scene you can add subtitles by clicking on the little screen.
6. If you click on the first ball and click play you can watch the complete movie with your subtitles.
7. Click next to send it in an email.
G. Xtranormal Animation
1. Visit http://xtranormal.com
2. Click on get started.
3. You will need to sign up for a free account.
4. Choose two Actors.
5. The screen that appears is where you will do your work.
6. Type the words you want the actors to say in the box. The highlighted actor is the one who will speak.
7. Click on the + to add more lines.
8. Add camera angles,
physical action
or facial expressions
9. You can change the background, the music, and the actors.
10. When you finished the words you choose the action button and then click the play button to preview your movie.
This does take time!!! The 3D rendering that makes this project so special takes bandwidth and server space.
11. When completed, the action button changes then you can finish and publish the movie.
12. Movies can be linked, embedded, or uploaded to YouTube.
Xtranormal is currently working on a “school safe” version of their film maker that will make this a more appropriate tool for our students. Please check out this product and watch for the updated version for our students! They are specifically working on an EDU Safe version that would allow schools to use their own servers for the rendering space, since that is what costs the most, and would give a massive discount for schools. They may even make a free school version with very limited characters for a smaller rendering time.
Presentation Outline
A. E-Comics
a. http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
b. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
c. Comics in Word/PowerPoint
B. E-Movie
a. www.dfilm.com
b. www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php
c. www.xtranormal.com
Information from the presentation URL:
http://presentationinformation.blogspot.com/
Additional References and Resources
http://www.tech4esl.blogspot.com
http://Esl.adultinstruction.org -Barry Bakin
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
A. Make Beliefs Comix
1. Visit http://www.makebeliefscomix.com.
2. Enter the site.
3. Choose from the different characters.
4. Choose an emotion for the character.
5. Click on the character to move it to the panel.
6. Move the character around in the panel window.
7.Click on the talk balloon and choose the size you want
8. Click on the balloon to place it in the panel.
9. Write in the balloon in the panel to add words.
10. When you choose the tool buttons, you click on the button and then on the object that you want to effect.
11. Don’t forget to choose a background colour for your panels.
12. Finally, print it or send it in an email.
13. For the workshop, please show the person next to you.
14. Don’t forget to check out the teacher’s resource page for 21 ways to use the comics in class.
B. Read Write and Think Comics.
1. Visit http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
2. You will be prompted to name the cartoon, add a subtitle, and your name.
3. You will be asked to choose the number of panels you wish to use.
4. Use the sheets of paper below the panel to choose the characters, the speech balloons and any prompts that you may want.
5. Choose the arrows at the top to move from panel to panel if you choose more than one.
6. With this site you will only be able to print it. There is no email option. It also does not give you a full preview.
This is really easy, quick, and fun for students to do!
C. PowerPoint/Word Clipart Comics.
1. Open Microsoft Office Word.
2. Click on Insert Clip Art
3. Find an acceptable image
4. You may need to adjust the image size
5. Insert a speech balloon
6. Write the spoken words in a regular speech balloon.
7. Edit the text in the speech balloon. Write thoughts in a thought bubble.
8. If you are using PowerPoint then several slides can be printed on one page using the handout option.
D. Dvolver Movie Maker
1. Visit http://www.Dfilm.com
2. Enter the site.
3. Choose the movie maker bubble.
4. Click on MovieMaker v2
5. Choose a background and a sky.
6. When you are finished choose next.
7. Next choose a plot.
8. Choose your two characters and click next.
9. Write what the characters say.
10. Choose the background music.
11. Preview the finished movie.
12. Email the finished movie to yourself.
Dfilm/Dvolver is currently working on a “school safe” version of their film maker that will remove the “sexy” characters (they will be putting on more clothes!), and the inappropriate settings and make this a more appropriate tool for our students. Please check out this product and watch for the updated version for our students!
E. Bombay TV
1. Visit the website http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?lang=uk
2. Select the movie scenes you want to use.
3. Add the subtitles you want.
4. Type your name.
5. Type in your email.
6. Type in the email of a friend (or teacher) you want to send the movie to.
7. Click Send.
F. Football TV
1. This is an extra but still useful program I have added to the handout for your reference.
2. Visit http://www.grapheine.com/futeboltv/
3. Click on a ball to view the scene.
4. Drag the scenes you want to the row of circles on the bottom of the box.
5. After you have clicked on a scene you can add subtitles by clicking on the little screen.
6. If you click on the first ball and click play you can watch the complete movie with your subtitles.
7. Click next to send it in an email.
G. Xtranormal Animation
1. Visit http://xtranormal.com
2. Click on get started.
3. You will need to sign up for a free account.
4. Choose two Actors.
5. The screen that appears is where you will do your work.
6. Type the words you want the actors to say in the box. The highlighted actor is the one who will speak.
7. Click on the + to add more lines.
8. Add camera angles,
physical action
or facial expressions
9. You can change the background, the music, and the actors.
10. When you finished the words you choose the action button and then click the play button to preview your movie.
This does take time!!! The 3D rendering that makes this project so special takes bandwidth and server space.
11. When completed, the action button changes then you can finish and publish the movie.
12. Movies can be linked, embedded, or uploaded to YouTube.
Xtranormal is currently working on a “school safe” version of their film maker that will make this a more appropriate tool for our students. Please check out this product and watch for the updated version for our students! They are specifically working on an EDU Safe version that would allow schools to use their own servers for the rendering space, since that is what costs the most, and would give a massive discount for schools. They may even make a free school version with very limited characters for a smaller rendering time.
Thursday
E-Comics & E-Movies
I have decided to do a refined version of my Integrateable Projects that Students Love presentation for the next E-Learning Conference. This time I am showcasing Xtranormal as an E-movie tool as I think that the teachers will recognize just how much potential this film maker will have.
I have spoken the the creator of Dfilms and now to the creator of Xtranormal and they are both considering (or planning) to make a "school" safe version that will allow students to use these with minimal licensing. In addition, I am so firmly behind the use of these products in schools that i have tested them out in the classroom and even with primary students. I am looking forward to sharing some of the results at this months conference. I will be adding a video of the PPT and a copy of the handout that I will be giving at the conference as soon as they are completed.
I do so love presenting at conferences. And since my style is very much to let the students (or in this case my colleagues) to do the work, it always ends up being a great workshop where people walk away with something tangeable in their minds.
I have spoken the the creator of Dfilms and now to the creator of Xtranormal and they are both considering (or planning) to make a "school" safe version that will allow students to use these with minimal licensing. In addition, I am so firmly behind the use of these products in schools that i have tested them out in the classroom and even with primary students. I am looking forward to sharing some of the results at this months conference. I will be adding a video of the PPT and a copy of the handout that I will be giving at the conference as soon as they are completed.
I do so love presenting at conferences. And since my style is very much to let the students (or in this case my colleagues) to do the work, it always ends up being a great workshop where people walk away with something tangeable in their minds.
Sunday
Integrateable Projects That Students Love
The 2009 E-Learning in Action conference is fast shaping up to be an interesting series of workshops and fun.
Here is what I am presenting this year. A little different, ok far different from my presentation last year. This will also be the first workshop I have given in a professional context in nearly 3 years.
Here is what I am presenting this year. A little different, ok far different from my presentation last year. This will also be the first workshop I have given in a professional context in nearly 3 years.
The handout is just a brief outline of what is on the slideshow, so I am not including it here. All the information, except the notes, are on the slideshow.
Mix Mingle & Merge
My first official presentation for HCT was at the E-Learning in Practice conference in 2008. This presentation was meant purely as an introduction to what a Mashup is and why it may be important for teachers to learn about it. I found it to be most important as a tool for the business teachers and still get questions to this day about what a Mashup is and it's role in business by the business teachers at the women's college.
I am sorry to say that the program that I used to transform the ppt into a video did not include the embedded videos that came with the Mashup presentation. However, I it looked great during the presentation.
I hope you had a chance to see it.
Here is the handout that I gave the participants.
Mix Mingle & Merge
Mashup Applications and HCT
Presentation Outline
A. Explanation and Examples of Mashups
a. Consumer
b. Data
c. Monster
B. Mashup Examples for typical HCT Students
a. Foundations Listening Lesson
b. Student Projects/Research
C. The Future of Mashups
Information from the presentation URL:
http://staff.rkwc.hct.ac.ae/cjones/Christine.html for HCT campus access.
http://scatcat.fhsu.edu/~cvjones/Christine.html
Mashup Lesson Example:
http://www.slideshare.net/g3webmaster/hct-example-of-a-mashup2
Where to go for even more information:
Mashup Creation Tools List
http://www.multcolib.org/_docs/Mashuphandout.pdf
Latest and Best in Mashups Today
http://dev.live.com/mashups/
Mashup Examples
http://www2.co.multnomah.or.us/learning/arlenek/entry/mashups
Advanced Mashups
http://richardcarey.net/2007/05/25/moodle-mashup/
Mashups Explained in Detail (Video Files)
http://video.zdnet.com/mashupcamp/?p=22
Mashup Maps in Teaching
http://teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/incorptech/maps.htm
Mashup Archive (100’s of Applications to look at!)
http://www.tucows.com/article/1027
Student Ideas for Mashups (a student Wiki on their Mashup Lesson with teacher’s Blog on the lesson)
http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Mashup+Madness
Student Created Video Mashups
http://video.learningparty.net/index.php?title=Mashups
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JaorO-tAlG4
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