Foreign Language Professional Development

August 15, 2008

Image Manipulation - using photos and images as support materials 

Copy-right friendly materials and/or digital pictures you take

• Picture Sources

  • Flickr Creative Commons 
  • Discovery Education Images  (SBISD password required)
  • Microsoft Clip Art & images 

• How to Capture and Save Images
   
• Image Generators - using the images
  • Magazine Cover     Sample
  • Trading Card    Samples    More details about one     Lesson Idea
  • Cartoons
    • Say What? Speech Bubbles
    • ToonDoo
  • Mosaics    More samples
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  • Frames for Images     Samples
  • License Plate Messages    Sample (scroll down)
  • Buttons - do you have a message to share?   

• Image Generator COLLECTIONS
  • Big Huge Labs
  • Image Chef
  • Kid Safe Image Generators
  • Swivel - use to explore data
  • Add Letters! - make custom signs 
  • Glass Giant Picture Makers  
  • Scrapblog - create scrapbooks    

Podcasting

• Audacity - tell stories, talk about books, share information through audio-only files

  Part of the load set on the new laptops.  Go to Start --> Programs --> Applications.

  • John review.wav  
  • Audacity and mp3 files.doc 

• Voice Thread  - storytelling with pictures and audio comments

  • Sample: Federal Holidays - create a new holiday. Be sure and click at least 4-5 slides into the program to hear the kids talk about their ideas.
  • Digital Storytelling at it best: Escaping Kenya during political unrest. 

• PhotoStory - storytelling with pictures, narration and/or music

  Part of the load set on the new laptops.  Go to Start --> Programs --> Applications. (It is not with the other Microsoft programs).

  • Assistance
  • TheTrap.wmv 
  • American+Symbols+Photo+story.wmv 
  • PhotoStorySAMPLE.wp3  this is an incomplete example saved in the mode which allows for editing.
     
     

Animated Podcasting

• Animoto - "music videos" that can be used as TEASes (Technology Enhanced Anticipatory Sets), introductions, conclusions & wrap ups (especially student-produced )
• Animoto Assistance 
• Mexican Folk Dancers    Paris Scenes     Salvadore Dali      List of more samples