Media+Creation

__**Slide Show:**__ Create a slide show presentation with many kinds of backgrounds, special effects, and music. Then your slideshow can be embedded into a webpage, a blog, shown in PowerPoint, etc.

__**[|SlideShare:]**__ SlideShare is a way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar. There are PowerPoint presentations here from around the world--some great, some good, some not so good in terms of either quality or content.

__**[|Rock You:]**__ Another slide show presentation website where you can upload your pictures, add labels/commentary, add music, videos, themes, movie posters, instant posting, and more!

__**[|VistaZoo:]**__ It is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio, floorplans and objects in 3D. Your tours will be uploaded and placed on a map instantly. Once the tour has been created, you can easily embed it into any website in seconds. It works just like YouTube. Create and share instantly.

__**[|Animoto:]**__ Created by TV and film producers, it touts itself as the "end of all slideshows." It is intuitive, taking your photos, "feeling them," and adding music and putting your slides into a customized video.

__**[|Flickr:]**__ Share your photos with the world; the world shares its photos with you, many available for download and usage without copyright protection.

[|Yale University Photo Library] I thought this was a good collection of digital images. KHJ

[|Powerpoints on Authors, etc.] This site has powerpoints on commonly used authors in schools as well as a variety of other stuff for your classroom. KHJ [|Imagechef] I simply adore doctoring photos and wacky stuff for classes here. Check out the tatoo video. KHJ

[|Clipart delight] Great free/adless site that is easy to navigate. I love the Victorian stuff. KHJ Check out Chaucer and Ophelia from the site! [|Comic Creator]- really easy and very basic. I'm using it with a unit for Prepositional Phrases, Interjections, and Conjunctions. LBB

[|The Warholizer] - Inspired by Andy Warhol's famous paintings of Marilyn Monroe. Simulates the effect on your own photographs. CDV

[|Crossword Puzzle Games] - "This website offers 32,400 free crossword puzzles and fun tools for people who enjoy word games. Get some help with a puzzle or create your own, free." CDV

[|Free Fonts] - Get all manner of new fonts to use for PowerPoint presentations, etc. CDV

[|Digital voice cards] Here you can type in any comment and it will play or be sent as a card. I used this last week to get DGP going, and the kids loved it. Also, not a smutty thing in the whole collection! KHJ