Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Digital Stories
Chessosaurus:
I created Chessosaurus with VoiceThread. It was fun to work with but for some reason I couldn't get the recording to work for me. Voicethread is nice though because you can choose to write in comments, or record (if you can figure it out), or even add music to go along with the images.
Sealympics:
I created Sealympics with the Scrapblog. It was really great for a more text based story. I didn't see any options to include sound, but I feel like there should be one. It allowed for more manipulation for the text (fonts, size, color, etc). There were some options to crop pictures too. I thought it was neat that we could pick our own backgrounds or use some samples ones. There were stickers too that we could choose from to help tell our story with images.
Apple Picking:
I created Apple Picking with Animoto. This one was by far the easiest to use, but unfortunately the one that allowed the least creativity. It created the whole video for you - all you had to do was provide the pictures and music. This one did not, however, allow for any text - unless it was in an uploaded image.
Overall, I think if you just wanted to present more of a picture based story, Animoto would be the best choice. If you wanted more of a text based one, I would choose the Scrapblog because the text is the main feature, working with the images to tell the story. In VoiceThread, the text is not emphasized, as they have the comments off to the side of the pictures, allowing the pictures to do most of the story telling like Animoto.
I created Chessosaurus with VoiceThread. It was fun to work with but for some reason I couldn't get the recording to work for me. Voicethread is nice though because you can choose to write in comments, or record (if you can figure it out), or even add music to go along with the images.
Sealympics:
I created Sealympics with the Scrapblog. It was really great for a more text based story. I didn't see any options to include sound, but I feel like there should be one. It allowed for more manipulation for the text (fonts, size, color, etc). There were some options to crop pictures too. I thought it was neat that we could pick our own backgrounds or use some samples ones. There were stickers too that we could choose from to help tell our story with images.
Apple Picking:
I created Apple Picking with Animoto. This one was by far the easiest to use, but unfortunately the one that allowed the least creativity. It created the whole video for you - all you had to do was provide the pictures and music. This one did not, however, allow for any text - unless it was in an uploaded image.
Overall, I think if you just wanted to present more of a picture based story, Animoto would be the best choice. If you wanted more of a text based one, I would choose the Scrapblog because the text is the main feature, working with the images to tell the story. In VoiceThread, the text is not emphasized, as they have the comments off to the side of the pictures, allowing the pictures to do most of the story telling like Animoto.
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