Technology+Tools

[|Sophie] Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book or “academic paper” to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins. Funded by grants from the Mellon and Macarthur foundations and the University of Southern California, Sophie is free and entirely open-source.

[|Visual Thesarus]

Graphic Organizer Tools

[|Hyperwords]

[|Apture-multimedia tool]

[|CliCk, Speak] CLiCk, Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite of products, it features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages - hence its name.

Podcasting is a simple but exciting way to engage students using the the omnipresent IPod (although one is not needed to participate to record and/or participate.) Check out these two YouTube videos that discuss podcasting in education. [|Podcasting 101]

[|Podcasting in Education]

[|Voice Thread] A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make **comments in 5 different ways** - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. They can even be **exported to an Archival Movie** for offline use on a DVD or video-enabled MP3 player. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.