This was recorded using WavePad for the iPad. This is not a very intuitive app, but works very well, and gives you lots of editing options. I then made it into a video with just a static image using Windows Movie Maker, because blogger won't let me post sound files, but videos are fine.
(Please note: there are some generalisations made based on observation during my limited experience. Please don't take offence if my observations don't apply to you or anyone you know or, as far as you're aware, anyone in the whole world. They're just my thoughts.)
This is a video I made using iMovie and stock pictures from a variety of places around the internet. (Except the photo of the game Deus Ex.) It was incredibly easy to merge the audio and pictures together to create this video! Getting the audio was the hard part - I used a FireFox add-on called "YouTube Video Dowloader" which I also use to download videos from YouTube that I want to show my class, in case my school YouTube filter blocks them. It is hosted on youtube, and the video description there is a part of the response.
This one is infographic style. It is my first attempt at an infographic, and I feel it is quite a clumsy attempt, as I couldn't figure out how to get the words into the shapes I wanted, but I wanted to use only Microsoft Word for this (all pictures included are word clipart) so as to better understand the program and how I can help my students use it. Click here for full size image,on TwitPic.
This one I had watched and thought about back in September, but I couldn't think of a good way to present it. My school has recently purchased one iPad for each teaching team (two teachers) and a class set of iPods that can be signed out of the media lab, so there is an abundance of exploration going on with mobile technology right now. One of my collegues suggested the app IdeaSketch to me, which is a mindmapping app. It's great, and I used it also for planning my choose-your-own-adventure story that is a part of my inquiry project, and I thought it would fit nicely for this as well. Click here for full size image, on TwitPic.
My final response is actually the first I ever recorded. I had intended to do an EduCreations video based on this - create a whiteboard-like video in which I could draw and add pictures in real time. However, I had a really difficult time making that video. Every time I added a picture, the recording would pause. This made it so I couldn't insert pictures during a phrase - I had to wait until I finished the sentence I was saying, then add the photos in later. I also couldn't use the recording I had made, which was very annoying. In the end, I did the same thing for this video that I did with my video on "Our Digital Future." the one thing I did differently was to edit the audio track, using WavePad. I have a rather halting way of speaking sometimes, with a lot of pauses, and I tend to ramble. I took out some of the unecessary rambling and got rid of a lot of the pauses, and reduced the video from almost 9 minutes to 5 minutes.
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