Okay, here is what I did and what I learned.
- I looked over the two links under Photography in Education.
- I used Quozio and made a couple of quote posters.
- I watched "How to Make an Animated Gif".
- I made a silly little Dr. Seuss gif using book covers and a couple of my Quozio posters.
- I "transformed" a photo to use, too. First I used Pixlr Editor and layers to add The Cat in the Hat to my circ desk. Then I added the text to the saved image using Picmonkey, because I just love Picmonkey! I went back into the Pixlr Editor and put my little cat's conversation balloon around the text.
- Then, using Animoto, I worked on a little video that is PR for Read Across America Day. It has my transformed photo and some other little pieces. I could not get my little gif slideshow to run within Animoto. But, the video clip was not too hard to do. Here it is embedded (I believe) below:
RAA Day PR
I did try using Wordle but could not figure out how to save it. I seemed to be able only to print it. That was frustrating because I wanted it in my slideshow.
There are so many interesting tools to still look over and great articles to read. But, for now I am wrapping up my work with Thing 13. Added to my list of tools I will continue to use and get my students to use are Pixlr Editor and Animoto. Picmonkey was already #1 on my list. :)
