Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 46

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------should be grouped together, how information is presented, and what information should be discarded. In eTwinning projects, this virtual wall has commonly been used for greetings and introductions, goodbyes, evaluations… One of the latest examples is https://padlet.com/teacheralex_dua/RethinkNews ~~~ https://animoto.com/ is an online video creation tool that produces engaging videos; it is a mash-up of pictures, video and sound that can start with a 30-sec creation in its free version or if you apply for an educator’s account at http://animoto.com/education/classroom you can get a free Animoto Plus Account allowing you to create unlimited videos and have a much wider choice of styles. That is exactly the first step, choosing a style; adding pics/photos, and text and you are done!! If you do not like what you have when you preview your video, you can edit it: arrange the order of your pics simply by dragging them, change the text or even change style. Easy to use and share. An example is https://animoto.com/play/nOTRAOcvyxCy8J4jcFutV A ~~~ http://utellstory.com/ is an engaging multimedia storytelling platform that allows us to tell stories and share topics that can include audio, image, video and words. To create and share audio slideshows couldn’t be easier or more intuitive: -Register, click on “Tell Story” and then on “Add slides”. At that point you decide whether you need to Add Image Slide (from your computer / URL or FLICKR), Add Text Slide or Add Video Slide (from Youtube or Vimeo). -To add audio (recorded or uploaded), click on Slide Audio; if you wish to add text, click Edit Caption. In the example I am including, myself and the student recorded the text and introduced the captions with the text. -At any time you can Arrange Slide Order, add Background Audio and Background Style -Do not forget to give it a title and add tags. -In the end, one can share it and/or embed it on a website or blog, exactly what myself and my students did with, for example, http://www.utellstory.com/viewstory/view/80eec0d 848ae92db766953a609e42ea6 to show our partners around where they are from. ~~~ https://www.thinglink.com/ is a free and user friendly digital tool that allows us to create and share interactive images. All can be done effortlessly and quickly and one can turn any static image into a multimedia rich interactive graphic by adding video, other images, audio, links to different sources… Ihave used this innovative and flexible tool in many different situations, including using a picture sent from Greece to one of my students after she shared in our class blog she suffered from Lupus. The Greek student – herself with serious health issues – sent the drawing with a poem that all partners agreed to translate into our mother tongues in order to share afterwards. I scanned the drawing, uploaded it to Thinglink to make it interactive adding the collaborative translations. Here it is at https://www.thinglink.com/scene/67510630571468 3905 ~~~ The creation of ebooks is another quite simple alternative, especially when we only have written text available. That was exactly what happened to create one of the products for our project. I came up with http://www.youblisher.com/ a free flipbook creator that turns our pdf into page-turning publications. http://www.youblisher.com/p/1172216-StoneCulture-Rolling-Over-Europe-2014-2015/ is an example of a collaborative ebook I created with materials and resources shared by partners. ~~~ For po