Learning Unit 13 – Making Online Movies
May 3, 2008
For this learning unit, we were instructed to develop some animations using popular websites on the internet. The sites used were Animoto, Toufee, & Sprout Builder. Below are the links to my animations that I created using these sites.
I thought that Animoto was by far the coolest website of the three. It was so easy to make my video on this site, I practically did nothing but upload all the pictures that I wanted in my video. Toutfree was my next favorite website for creating a video, I thought it was kind of cool the way you could add effects for transitions and text. One of my videos had to be related to engineering, so I chose to use Toufee for this one; I think my video turned out pretty good. Last, but not least, I had to use Sprout Builder; this was not my favorite website to play around with. I thought that it was very difficult to get anything built using this site. I kept my content short and simple.
For the next part of this learning unit, we were asked to create a screen cast using Freescreencast.com. This was pretty fun, but I could not get the software to work properly when it came to posting my screen cast to the internet. To get around this, I simply saved the screen cast out as a wave audio/video file and uploaded it to Google Video. The Screencast software enabled me to perform a screen cast quite easily, however I think the resolution is lacking somewhat. I am not sure what to attribute this to; oh well, check it out.
The third activity of this unit required us to create a profile on the website Seesmic and respond to a video called “Video to Support LU12″. I replied to this video, however I was unable to see any of my replies (I replied several times). I really didn’t like this site, as it was very hard to use, and I had to constantly reload my page to navigate around. I tried for several days to post replies to different videos, but I had no success. In order to reply to anything, I had to create a video off-line and upload it to the Seesmic site. I am not sure if the problem is with my computer, the software, or my webcam. After investigating, it seems as though my classmates were able to post, however I was not. Anyway, below is the link to my reply for the video.
The fourth activity had us using the website voicethread. I thought that this site was much easier to use than Seesmic. I created my own voicethread of some pictures that I uploaded; here is the link. I also replied to two conversations that were started within my class. The first one was started by Dr. Alam, and the second was started by jjunger; check them out (just click on the names previously mentioned to follow the link).
There was also a ready assignment for this learning unit; It was pretty informative.
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