Sounds,+Photos,+and+Videos+for+UW-L


 * __SOUNDS__**

[|Soundzabound] (access through Badgerlink for free use)

PANDORA - An on-line radio station. You can choose your favorite artists and styles and they will add similar artists to your station. The downside to this is that it streams the entire time which would not make schools happy.

AUDACITY This is a free download for recording to your computer. It can be exported into a .wav or .mp3 file.

Possible uses:
 * Students record themselves reading books.
 * Podcasts
 * Recording directions

__CUEPROMPTER__ A website that creates a teleprompter on the website.

Possible uses:
 * For students to practice reading poems, etc.
 * For students to read lines for a video

Picnik A site for editing and saving photos. (No account needed)
 * __PHOTOS, PHOTO-EDITING, AND PHOTO PRODUCTS__**

Picasa A site for editing and saving photos. You can also order prints and create slideshows. (Account needed) Big Huge Labs

Possible uses:
 * Creating slideshows of classroom activities

__SNACKTOOLS__ This website has a suite of applications that you can make banners, build audio and video playlists, and create flipbooks. Here is a link to a flipbook that I made of pdf files. http://www.flipsnack.com/flips/4a7d94109b1a1d32fdac11cd0q203313. I was not terribly impressed with the quality and had difficulty with the embed code.

Possible uses: Not sure yet.


 * __VIDEOS__**

ZAMZAR This is an on-line file converter. Once the file is converted, the company emails you the link that you can save to your computer.

SCREENCAST-O-MATIC This is an on-line recording tool for creating your own videos. It appears you can capture anything within that screen and it makes it a video. Recording was pretty easy, but the file was too large to put on this page.

Possible uses: Finding websites Accessing files Anything that you would need to repeat for students:)

YOUTUBE Videos for viewing and/or downloading. Content is not filtered so you wouldn't want to set the kids free on it. There are some decent videos to go with content, but you have to spend time viewing the whole thing. There are also ads that often begin each video. There is a program that are instructor told us about called quietube that is supposed to play your video without ads, but I have had limited success with it.

iTunes

TEACHER TUBE and SCHOOL TUBE Similar to YouTube, but content has been added by teachers. Content is filtered so it is more appropriate for school audiences.