Thursday, January 31, 2008

Edit Online videos

Scenemaker.net looks like a really handy tool. It allows you to create your own channel and capture just the parts of various YouTube and other online videos. That way you can just show your students the parts you want them to watch. It also gives you an 'embed code' so that you can embed the video clip into your own blog or digital materials.

This is a nice way to grab and edit online video without having to download it onto your own computer and break the law.

Also helps to stop your students from wandering off onto other unsuitable stuff.

Hope you find it useful

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Build your own Facebook Apps

App in a box is a really interesting site that claims to be able to help you build your own Facebook applications within 5 minutes.



The site offers to help you build 5 different types of applications at the moment. These are:
  • Text
  • Mp3
  • Video
  • Image
  • Any combination of the above

They also have 3 new ones planned
  • Link to information on other social networks
  • A count down to an event
  • A quiz type app

If you are keen on getting students using social networks like Facebook and want to connect that to other work you are doing without all the hassle of learning lots of programming skills, then this looks worth a try.

I haven't tried it myself yet, so I'm not sure if it does all that, but will post something ( maybe even with a tutorial on http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ once I have.

If you try or have tried it, by all means post a comment below and let me know how you got on.

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Coca-Cola opens in There.com

I received my copy of There Fun Times today in my email box and was interested to see that Coca-Cola were opening and island in the 3D virtual world of There.com. It's amazing to see how many big brands now have a presence in a virtual world of some kind. It's especially surprising that Coca-Cola are using There.com as it has had none of the high profile publicity that Second Life has attracted. It may well be that There.com as attracted a big proportion of the younger age group that CC want to market to. There.com certainly has a much younger and lighter feel that SL and it does seem to be designed more around the concept of having fun ( in a less adult way).

Anyway it's good to see that Second Life isn't the only player and that big companies are looking beyond that and taking other virtual worlds seriously as a place to promote their brand.

Read There Fun Times article on Coca-Cola partnership
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Sitemap

Here you can find links to all my Quick Shout postings
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