Animoto is a web application that can automatically generates professionally produced videos using special technology and high-end motion design. Each video created is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.
Animoto's program for education provides an array of tools that help teachers and students create videos in the classroom including. Features available to create videos include cinematic artificial intelligence, remix and spotlight. Text can be included in the videos, and the final videos can be easily shared and downloaded.
Animoto has been described as "a magically-easy way to grab attention...and create new visual contexts."
More information on Animoto for Education at: http://animoto.com/education
YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on http://www.youtube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email. Creator's Corner is a special creative hub for aspiring videographers with big dreams and small budgets.
YouTube also offers an Education Channel with Videos and Channels from college and university partners of YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/edu
More information on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com
Audacity® is a freely available audio editor that can be used for recording, slicing, and mixing audio. Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Once installed the Audacity program can be used to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
