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......