del.icio.us

What is del.icio.us?
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to:
* Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
* Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
* Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online,

MOGOPOP

http://www.mogopop.com/login/
WHAT IS MOGOPOP?
It only works with Firefox but it is really cool! Create and download content for iPod. Mogopop rolls your video, audio, pictures and text into a single piece of iPod content that anyone can download. Download free content on Mogopop or create and publish your own free content.

Pulpmotion....

And Ross Wallis writes......http://www.pulpmotion.com/index.html/
This only came out yesterday! - I have had a lot of fun since I discovered the beta last week playing about with it - there is one of my experiments up on our departmental website, www.artatsidcotschool.org.uk I have put a link to it from the front page - bugs animations. the little movies being displayed were done by my year 7's last year (in photohsop!) - Ross Wallis

iMovie Chroma Key Plugins

iMovie Chroma Key Plugins - they work with iMovie6 and Mac OS 10.4.
http://www.kudlian.net/products/essential/
http://www.geethree.com/slick/index.html

Precise link to example:
http://www.geethree.com/slick/galleries/d_v4.html

Animation montage - FIRE!

I spent the day working with Newman Special school creating an animation montage yesterday- it was set to original music the children had been involved in composing and writing lyrics for and then put together by a professional musician. The final product can be viewed on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGp0H2g2_6U/
Feel free to add comments on Youtube but you need to be a registered user first!

Image manipulation software - teach-ict.com

If you're looking to get started with image manipulation then try:
teach-ict.com

Theres a flash video on common mistakes:
http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse/software/graphics/imagemistakes.html

also a page of flash videos on how to use photoshop:
http://www.teach-ict.com/software/photoshop/photoshop.htm

Great to get anybody started.......

Huckleberry for MacBook and MacBook Pro

Now this looks like a very interesting alternative to DV camera......designed to sit on top of your screen, just like an isight camera (when you could buy them!).

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/huckleberry/


A lot cheaper than using an external camera if you have a built in iSight on your mac. Great for doing clay animation activities....and so affordable!

TextToMP3

For Macs only........
macupdate.com

"TextToMP3 is a simple droplet application that accepts dropped text files and converts them into speech in MP3 format using Apple's Speech Manager technology and the open-source LAME MP3 encoder. TextToMP3 was created using Platypus.
Needs Mac OS X 10.3 or later"
Hoping I will be able to do something with this pretty soon......

Flickr & Skype- two old favourites

Just realised that Ive not mentioned a couple of my old favourites yet......

Flickr
Flickr is an excellent, free, web based photo sharing space......Im a bit of an addict now, its great fun, build up your contacts, add comments on each others photos and create sets. I'm finding it a really useful tool for pulling together all the family history info. including census detail.

Skype
The other one has to be Skype..... software that lets you make free calls and instant messaging to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. Even though the calls are free, they are of excellent quality. You can also use webcams and make free video calls.

E2BN's Myths and Legends

I've just come across E2BN's Myths and Legends web link:

e2bn Myths & Legends
It has an exciting story creator program which could provide a good introduction to storyboarding. Available on the E2Bn - RBC website, free of charge and web based so can be used on any platform. In story creator 2 you can also add sound or record a voice over to go with your text. in both versions you can add your own photographs. Once you have created your story you can save this and play it back on the site (a bit like a movie) or download it to your computer. For those of you trying to develop ENGLISH or the creative curriculum with an ICT application this is ideal; you also have the opportunity to submit any of your own local myths and legends.

CrazyTalk 4

Have you seen CrazyTalk 4?
CrazyTalk
It enables you to create virtual animated actors from digital photos adding a perfect personality to multimedia projects, for PC only- umm!!......I don't think there is a Mac equivalent though.

"bubblr"

I was introduced to Bubblr the other week…………

Its a very simple comic strip program and free too! It works seamlessly with images in Flickr.
If you have an account with Flickr you can search for your photos using your username, or you can search for a theme and find any users images tagged with this eg. Deer.
The only drawback is you cannot save the file or print it. It can be published but be aware that all and sundry can view your strip!

"Gliffy"

I've just discovered Gliffy.

It's a simple online drawing program and still free at the moment while in its Beta stage of development.....check it out, its a collaborative tool if you want it to be or you can export as a png or jpg.

quikmaps????

Thought I’d try out quikmaps today, but not had much luck. I can see the potential but getting frustrated. Maybe some of you clever people on Tuesday can work it out for me…..not sure if its an incompatibility problem with my browser, using Safari, should try it with Firefox, but not tonight! It’s too much like hard work for a Saturday night. The plan was to create a map for a family history trail over in Lancs. next week. Places to go, evidence trail, churches, cemeteries, pubs, farms and streets, draw lines showing the best routes to them, then add comments and pictures afterwards and share it on a blog.
However, the ‘go to’ won’t let me go anywhere….just displays Philadelphia, USA. I had to drag the quikmap east until I found the places I was looking for. Then I tried using the line mode but couldn’t draw anything. Managed a scribble and couldn’t delete it. So I clicked “help” to see what I was doing wrong…..fatal mistake!! After reading the help I clicked the back button but my work (minutes of!) had disappeared and not to be found again. Tried saving several times or sending to my blog but this doesn’t work for me either.