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"Animoto is an excellent tool for creating audio slideshows. But there are some limitations to it that some teachers don't like. Most notable of those limitations is the time limit (30 seconds unless you get an Animoto for Education account), lack of space for text, and that students have to remember a username and password to use it. The YouTube slideshow tool provides a tool for creating audio slideshows without those three limitations of Animoto." Via Beth Dichter 
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Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunate...
This TED talk highlights the shift changes that are revolutionizing educational practices. Transformations is communication technologies has freed education from both spatial and temporal constraints of the past. Social media technologies has made numerous shifts that some educators have resisted. Donald Clark ends the talk with this poignant ending: "You can ignore it, but resistance is futile."
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Sal Khan, whose online Khan Academy serves up video tutorials to more than 6 million students worldwide each month, wants to reassure teachers that the free educational service isn’t out to take their jobs—nor is it a statement about a teacher’s...
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This Public Service Announcement (PSA) was produced in 1995 by the 5th grade students at Ray Bjork school in Helena Montana. The production equipment was mad...
This video pretty accurately describes how we use the internet today, even down to the obsession with cat-related content.
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The innovative minds at TED have brought a new educational video website to the head of the class. Today, TED-Ed launched http://ed.ted.com, a site that features TED-Ed’s original K-12 animated videos with accompanying lessons and quizzes.
I'm incredibly excited about this announcement. I've included a few TED-Ed link on my site http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education and will continue to do so. Khan Academy is not alone as a major free website that is producing great videos for educational purposes. TED-Ed also has lesson materials at can be customized to your particular classroom needs.
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According to a recent study, Pinterest has risen to the 3rd most trafficked social media website.
This announcement is a good time to evaluate this simple question: How can I use Pinterest within the classroom and for pedagogical purposes? Here's my Geography Education pinterests boards http://pinterest.com/geogeducation/ to show what I currently am trying to do, but there are so many other possibilities. And for those obsessed with knowing the ranking of social media sites, here they are:
1. Facebook 2. Twitter 3. Pinterest 4. LinkedIn 5. Tagged 6. Google+
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If you are looking for an alternative to Animoto to use with students to create photo slideshows check out YouTubePhoto Slideshows. YouTube allows you to create videos up to 15 minutes in length and you may specify how long a slide is shown. There is also an annotation tool to add text. For those folks whom use Google Apps for Eduation students already have a user name and log-in. Richard Byrne provides directions (with screen shots) to walk you through the process.
This page shows how to use YouTube for slideshows so that they are longer and more accessible to students that other sites like Animoto. I had no idea that YouTube had this capability. In my district, YouTube is blocked on campus computers (I'm sure many others can sympathize) so I would need to work around that if I had students using this in a lesson. Recently I began to use SlideRocket to create video lessons so that I can incorporate audio narration and the link is not blocked by the district's web filter. SlideRocket could be used for a slideshow as well, but it takes a lot more customizing than this YouTube method. This blog has a ton of other useful information too. Kudos to the writer!