The Tech Flash

Technology tips & awareness tools for school administrators

Archives for Manipulating Multimedia (Images, Videos, Audio, Etc.)

New Traveling Professional Development

 
Have you noticed the new assistive technology display board within your school this year?   Over the summer, the assistive technology team built kiosk displays for all schools which highlight various technology tools on the instructional matrix,  strategies for integrating these tools into the curriculum, and a wide variety of additional resources.   The boards were delivered to schools during the months [...]

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Quick Movies with Animoto

 
Want a quick and easy way to create a professional looking slideshow of images and pictures (easier than using PhotoStory 3 or Windows Movie Maker)?  Animoto is the answer! Animoto videos are music videos for your images and pictures.  High production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music!  You can add your [...]

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Kick YouTube…yes, you’ll feel better!

 
Odds are you already know that YouTube (http://www.YouTube.com) is one of the largest collections of free video on the World Wide Web.  This collection of videos contains some fantastic educational videos which can greatly enhance and supplement the curriculum, projects, or presentations.  However, given the vast amount of inappropriate content on YouTube the website is blocked by [...]

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Wake Up with TeacherTube

 
Have you been to TeacherTube recently?  If not, you are missing scores of incredible instructional video clips available on demand all for free!  If your like me, you probably have the best intentions to visit sites like this and review videos but just can’t seem to squeeze enough time into the day.  Well….why not sign up the TeacherTube [...]

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Image Scrimmage

 
Need an image for an upcoming presentation or project?  Check out the Image Scrimmage document that Pat King (TRT at Mountainview ES) has compiled.  This incredible resource is an ongoing project which is a collection of indexed websites that contain free digital images for use with instruction.  The sites are all categorized into core curriculum [...]

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