Common Core, Book Trailers, and Three Good Tools for Creating Them

In last month's issue of The Digital Shift I featured the site Book Trailers for Readers . Book Trailers for Readers was developed by t...

5 Ways for Students to Create Audio Slideshows

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

Three Ways for Students to Create and Send Digital Holiday Greetings

Image credit: Jen Deyenberg Tomorrow is the last day of school before winter break for many students. If you're looking for a good eleme...

How to Create YouTube Photo Slideshows - A Good Alternative to Animoto

Animoto is an excellent tool for creating audio slideshows. But there are some limitations to it that some teachers don't like. Most no...

Two Easy Ways to Send Digital Greeting Cards

I started receiving holiday greeting cards in the mail this week. I'm sure that many of you have started to get them too. I remember whe...

Make Videos On Animoto for Android

I'm not sure how I missed the news earlier, but today I discovered that Animoto now has an Android app . The Android app, like the iOS ...

Five Tools for Modern Postcard Lessons

Yesterday, I found a postcard creation tool and lesson on Read Write Think. The RWT Postcard Creator walks students through the process of ...

Use Instagram Images in Animoto Videos

This afternoon I gave a brief demonstration of Animoto to a wonderful group of educators in an Ed Tech Teacher workshop. It was the first ...

A Last-Minute Valentine's Day Project

In case you forgot, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. If you need a quick way to send for your kids or students to send Valentine's Day g...

Animoto Launches a New iPad and iPhone App

In my email this morning I received the news that Animoto has released a new free app for creating videos on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touc...

Have Students Send Video Greeting Cards This Year

One of the things that I remember doing at this time of year in elementary school is creating greeting cards (complete with glitter and lots...

Shwup Renamed as Muvee Cloud - Still Easy to Make Videos

Last fall I wrote about a neat video creation tool called Shwup. Shwup is similar in nature to Animoto and Stupeflix. Shwup has been rename...

Webinars for the New Animoto

Earlier this week Animoto introduced a new editing interface for its very popular video creation service. One of the new features that I re...

Videolicious - Create Videos on Your iPhone or iPad

Videolicious is a free iOS app for creating videos on the go. The concept behind Videolicious is similar to that used by services like  Ani...

A Conversation with Animoto's CEO

Animoto is a video creation tool that has become quite popular with educators. In the video below Robert Scoble sits down with Animoto...

Flixtime Adds Voiceover Capabilities

FlixTime , a competitor to Animoto , recently released some enhancements to their video creation services. Probably the most significant of ...

Free Guide - Making Videos on the Web

Creating videos is one the activities that my students really enjoy doing. They enjoy it, in large part, because the finished product is som...

Animoto Adds New Elements

Dead-simple video creation service Animoto recently added four new elements to their offerings. For quite a while Animoto has offered backg...

Flixtime - Quickly Create Short Videos

Flixtime is a new video creation service that is quite similar to Animoto and Stupeflix . Flixtime gives users the ability to create 60 s...

Stupeflix Wows the Crowd

This morning in one of my classes, my students shared short presentations about reform movements of the 19th century with those of the 20th ...