Thing 12: Media Skills

Ok, I'll start out by saying that as a life-long learning, I love Cool Tools!  I want to have them at my finger tips, ALWAYS.  It was hard to pick what I would try out, so I did some random things: Quozio, Flipagram, Clipping Magic and 1 Second Every Day. 

Quozio will come in super handy as my students finish up their African American Movie Maker projects.  I'm going to require them to locate a quote made by the person they are researching, or a quote about that person, create a Quozio for it, and include it in their presentation . They are going to feel so professional! 

I used Flipagram to create a video of my kids coloring Easter eggs and making carrot cake.  Adding music gave the slideshow a more romantic feel, though I would like to add in transitions from slide to slide.  A bit more research on that feature is necessary. 

Using Clipping Magic is a cool site that can photoshop your pics basically for free, but as a novice user with a short attention span, I found it hard to navigate.  The available features seem interesting enough that I'll want to go back and invest the time to learn them.

My prediction is that I will be LOVING 1 Second Every Day, and using it a lot.  I've always wanted to take a pic in the same place once a day of myself or kids and then compile them to see the changes over time . I don't know why I haven't done it, or why an app like this should be the catalyst in getting me to actually do it.  The samples were very cool - and as stated something like on the Cool Tools site:  oddly intriguing. 

There are more that I'd like to try, and will likely come back and do them later!