Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Applications of Spicynodes in education
Since visual objects tend to stimulate students‘
perception much more than any other thing,
Spicynodes would just do the same. It would allow
students to create visually engaging mindmaps
about interesting concepts and would catch their
attention perhaps more than any other diagram and
mind mapping tool would do. It would also help
them create organizational charts, a situation
Biology, History, Language Arts and Maths teachers
would benefit from a lot.
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How to Make an Animated Panoramic Photo Using
Autostich and Pano2QTVR
By Eric Vayssie, France
You need 2 tools :
1 Autostich to assemble your photos in a cylindric
panoramic photo (.jpg)
2 Pano2QTVR to convert your cylindric panoramic
photo in a QuickTime Virtial Reality QTVR file
(.mov)
You obtain a cylindric panoramic photo: pano.jpg
Crop your photo.
I use Photophiltre to crop the draft cylindric
panoramic photo and QuickTime to read the QTVR
file.
Download : autostitch.zip
Unzip.
Download : Pano2QTVRGui_Installer_v1_6_6.exe
at
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/download/pano2
qtvr/Pano2QTVRGui_Installer_v1_6_6.exe
Install.
Run autostich
File > Open : to select the photos to assemble
Run Pano2QTVRGui.
Create a new project.
Select you cropped cylindric panoramic photo and
create.
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