's Multimedia tools
They are
many the tools that are suggested everyday at forums. that is why I
have decided to create this section with all the material that I have
and the new that I am receiving from now on wards... I hope you like
it...
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Video
(banks of video material) |
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Presentations
software
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Have a look at the new version of the traditional ppt. Now,
with Producer
it has also voice. Viewer |
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"...free
and open-source Java application, with installers available
for Windows, Linux and MacOS X..." |
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"Create
compelling step-by-step software demos, web animations, Flash
tutorials, virtual tours and visual FAQs with the original Flash
animation software..."/ Viewlet
Cam |
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"...publish
the content you already have to the Web quickly and easily.
Enable your subject matter experts to produce high-quality,
professional presentations, demonstrations, interactive tutorials
and classes..." |
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"...-Create
compelling presentations and e-learning courses, complete with
narration, animation and interactivity.
- Develop and deliver content fast, while it's timely and relevant.
- Distribute your message widely over the Internet in a format
anyone can view..." |
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"...browser-based
rich learning experience that is automatically synchronized
with their handwritten or typed notes..." (pay) |
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"...is a
screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window
desktop for illustration or documentation purposes..."
(open source) |
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to
work with Power Point and related collaborativelly (pay) |
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"...you
are free to use your old Microsoft PowerPoint presentations,
or save your work in PowerPoint format for sending to people
who are still locked into Microsoft products. Alternatively,
use IMPRESS's built-in ability to create Flash (.swf) versions
of your presentations..." (Is it not good? ;) ) |
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Not
free, but not very expensive..../University of Murcia tutorial |
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"...
enables production and delivery of synchronized plug-in free
video and impaticized PowerPoint presentations combined with
searchable text, dynamic indexing and navigation..." |
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"...
simplifies and accelerates online meetings, presentations and
training with one revolutionary integrated solution...+audio,
ppt compatible, LMS..." |
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"...automatically
records all on-screen actions and instantly creates an interactive
Flash simulation..." |
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"...
is the easiest way to create interactive demonstrations and
software simulations in Flash format...." You could add
voice as well. ( 21 day trial demo) |
Articles
related and other stuff
"PowerPoint
to E-Learning Shootout" at
San Francisco Training Fall 2004 Conference (Suggested by Eduardo Hernández)
Working
with images....
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Comments |
Free? |
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One
of the most recommended ones |
Yes
(Open Source) |
Images
material
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A
collection of photos for the Educational usage dealing with
anglosaxon topics. |
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Incredible creative
pictures bank ordered by social categories, but you have to
pay |
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"...A
place to keep post production materials for use of reference,
an inactive job file. ...contains free high resolution digital
stock photography for either corporate or public use..." |
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"...over
one free million images in its extensive online archive, including
photography, clipart, illustrations, footage, and maps..." |
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"Free
photos to download" |
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Not
only photos and images, but also complements for webmasters... |
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a
place for exchange and commenting photos |
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"Royalty
Free Stock Photography" |
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More
photos to download, this time some kind of "intuitive ones"... |
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"FreeFoto.com
is the largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial
use on the Internet" |
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"...is
a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students." |
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"Astronomy
Picture of the Day Archive" |
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Browse, share
and chat... |
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A huge list of
links to get photos for free and pay. Great! |
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"Where to
Find Free Images and Visuals for My Blog" |
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"...high-quality
photos start at $1.00..." |
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"Royalty-Free
stock images" (1$ per image) |
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An
increadible database of multimedia materil ready to use. It
also includes a forum project. |
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A
collection of European historical images |
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I
think all of them images, all them focussed on education |
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The
same than before, with signs (traffic, flags, etc...). |
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"...
3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of
basic vocabulary in a variety of languages..." |
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With
a single click you will have lots of images to get. Take into
account copyright! |
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Very
similar to Google, but with the possibility of choosing size. |
Audio
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Free? |
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A
very complete tool to work also with video. |
:(
** It could be some demo... |
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Not
free, but there demos to try |
Recommended |
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Very
good quality. It works also with image. Great for tutorials. |
Not
free, but demos. |
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Very
easy to use software |
Yes |
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Very mentioned
tool by webheads and REO memeber... But I haven't tried it
yet.
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Not
sure |
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"...
allows you to create digital files from any audio .... This
allows recording from external microphones, the line-in jack,
the computer CD drive, Internet radio stations, movies, games,
etc. (files may be saved in WAV or MP3). |
There is a demo |
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For
extracting CD tracks into your hard disc and more... |
Yes |
Audio
Material
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Comments |
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There
are not many... but is is ok. |
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"RepeatAfterUs.com
offers copyright-free classics with audio clips,
including poems, fables, essays, soliloquies, historical speeches,
memorable quotes, nursery rhymes, and children's stories from
around the world...." |
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A website where
you could listen debates on different topics |
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Audio
+ text about most of the relevant European leaders |
Audio
& ELT
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Comments |
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Not
only radio for non-natives, but also games, dictionaries...
great! |
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Video
(banks of video material)
Name |
Some
comments |
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A
huge collection of videos of everykind |
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Just
great! have a look at that! Good for British Accents |
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Mostly Science,Phisics and Maths (CC) |
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A
video searcher of news... It seems quite good! |
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A
very good selection of Video material on historical events |
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A
very good site to watch video on different topics. |
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Not many videos but ok |
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"An aggregator for educational videos that allows users to democratically post and vote for videos from well-known video websites" |
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Very similar to "You Tube" but educative focussed |
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Assorted videos to work on different topics |
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also, to make your videos interactive |
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Video agregator |
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A
collection of video based on news of the week. American accent |
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A
good collection of free Flash movies ready to be used at class. |
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Free
text, audio and video stuff |
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More free text,audio
and video stuff to download |
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"...a list
of cool, funny, hilarious and painful videos" |
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Good lists of
them |
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Tones of talks and points to be debated here |
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It
could be an idea for all kind of students |
Tools
to work with video
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"the
Streaming Download Project is a small dedicated team of independent
software coders. We are a nonprofit team with only one goal -
understanding (and documenting) MMS fully. Our resulting implementation
of our MMS document has lead to the development of a MMS streaming
receiver for windows media streaming. So now, not only can you
view the streaming media in preview mode, SDP receiver downloads
(or copies) the stream to your hard disk. This cannot be achieved
with a standard Windows Media player" Open Source |
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"...gmms
is a simple MMS-stream downloader based on mmsclient that works
on both Windows® and Linux. MMS-streams are multimedia streams
broadcasted on the Internet, following the MMS-protocol"
Open source |
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Microsoft
solution. The most famous one... |
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Free
and pay edition... (Great!!!) |
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Dubbed videos ideal to learn English, also tools to do it |
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One
of the best... |
Websites
based on video for teaching foreign languages
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A great
project directed by Michael Marzio where diferent English accents
are recordered all around the world by means of interviews an
later practice with interactive exercises included. |
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"..English
Bites is a television presentation and web site designed to
help improve your English language skills..." |
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"*Study English
using movie commercials!* " |
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Ready-made videos to learn English |
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"...Living
English is for the English language learner at a beginner, or
near beginner level. It is especially for people who wish to
learn or revise their basic English skills..." |
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A
very well done website for teaching French |
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A very good website to create and get video quizzes for your students |
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A
new website greately created with Flash. It works with video
clips, TV adds, games and others. |
Web
sites to get real video material to teach EFL
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Comments |
Accent |
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Specially
designed for kids and education, but also adults |
American |
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Other
stuff on working with video in the classroom
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A
very good "tutorial" where several tips are suggested
in order to work with digital video in the classroom. Very complete. |
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An application
to sent video (like postcards) |
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"...Video
to Flash Converter. Kibisis allows you to encode standard video
and audio files into low bit rate Flash movies, ready to be
streamed across today's Internet connections..." |
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Some
very good links for decoding video (In Spanish, with possibility
of translation) |
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"...FFmpeg
is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and
video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec
library. FFmpeg is developped under Linux, but it can compiled
under most OSes..." (Free) |
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A
basic but not undetailled website to work with this... |
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"...edit
screen modes and professional, yet easy-to-use features make
it a snap for anyone to transform raw video footage into impressive
movies..." |
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"...multimedia
creation tool for users of any level of technology skills. The
updated software version is cross-platform and runs natively
in OSX or on Windows machines..."/Free
version |
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A
very good finding! |
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I
am not sure whether pay or not but it seems to give you plenty
of information.... |
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A
very good article with links related from the BBC website. |
Some
articles on the use of video on Education
Davidson,
H (2005), Meaningful
Digital Video for Every Classroom
Graham, D.E.
(2004), UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER,
Schools use video technology in bid to boost learning
Other
suggestions...
Embedding
Multimedia, by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
Try... Creative
Commons stuff! Great!
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