Thing 13 Media Skills

    Well, here I go...Media Skills ~ I  am running about two or three weeks behind, but chiseling away at this topic. I have finally come up with an idea for a (very) short video. Coming up with an idea was the hardest part of this topic's assignment, I think.  :)
     
     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.  :)