Slideshows+&+Digital+Images

//Resources related to digital images, slide shows, etc. online.// toc

Slideshows
//Many of the items here come from [|EVO Video 2008]--with thanks to the teachers who participated there.//

Animoto lets you upload photos and then creates a create slideshow. Has a selection of free and for fee music to add. If your show is fairly long, there will be a slight fee. Has an educator's license for free, however. [|VoiceThread] allows you to do a voice-over comment on still photos--and friends can also add their voice comments. Obvious potential for ESL/EFL. A good example is Nik Peachey's mini-tour of [|Vassar Island] and the Sistine Chapel re-creation. [|Slide.com] [|Bubbleshare] [|Flickr] - see also their "badges" feature [|Flowgram] - Create interactive guided presentations combining Web pages, photos, PowerPoint, your own voice,notes, highlights, etc. [|SlideShare] - You can display your PowerPoint slideshow here and the text of the slides will also appear as a transcript. No audio. You can add to a group, add tags, and make comments. Users can download the file. [|Dipity] - Not exactly a slideshow, but a fascinating way to create a history using a timeline and photos. Could be a great tool in a history, civics, social-cultural, or social studies classroom.

**Collections**
50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story is a treat--lots of examples to give students ideas on storytelling through all the new Internet interactive tools. //(Thanks to Bee Dieu of the Webheads for this tip.////)// [|Review of SlideShows]This blog entry by Webhead Ronaldo Lima, Jr., has a nice comparative review of three slideshow tools--[|Voicethread], [|Splashcast] and [|Qlipboard]--with short examples of each. Comments by fellow Webheads are also very useful. CogDogRoo - Descriptions of 50 Web Tools to create stories using photos, slideshows, video, audio, etc., with examples of each

Digital Images
//Some items here come mainly from Images4Education's [|bookmarks at Diigo] - an EVO 2009 session -- with many thanks to those teachers.//

[|What Can We Do with Flickr?] - hours of exploration on this clever desktop photo that demonstrates Flickr's many tools Flickr Organizer - [|Pictures Tied to Maps] [|Free Digital Photos] - many free, some with small fee; user-contributed [|Tibbit] is billed as a way to communially build a "tribute" to someone, e.g., for a birthday. It allows you to mash up photos, text, podcasts, embedded video, etc., and then "play" everything together. Contributors can post their photos and a short text on the main page. So this might work quite well for student group projects that can be created collaboratively and then presented as a show. There is also a "due date" feature--the time by which items have to be put into the show. This [|YouTube video] shows the several features. [|QlipBoard] allows you to make screencasts with the addition of your own photos and Webshots and decorate/enhance them with whiteboard-like tools. It's a free download. The downside: It's not Mac-enabled. A couple of video presentations and how-tos are found at [|YouTube]. (//Thanks to Carla Arena, Webhead, for this find!//) [|Vuvox] - Amazing what you can do with images, e.g., [|'da man"s Collages] virtual art gallery with clickable slideshow images. Also allows downloads of mobile phone video/stills.