Animoto.com

The short version.

The full length of the video is 8 min.

WEB2.0:ANIMOTO

Animoto brings wonders to your SLIDES!!

I came across it when I was itching my way in the cyberspace.

It was amazing to see how the tool put up my pictures together – edit / arrange et al.

The music selections the tool provided are great!! No typical Beyonce songs or JT songs or Britney songs.

Anyway, below is the screen shot of my video being processed.

The downside of ANIMOTO is you are only allowed 12 pictures per video.

Limited number!

You want more, you have to pay.

See the price tag.

OK. My video is completed.

(See below screenshot)

Animoto.com

A test version. The song was not meant for these pictures.

Just for laughs

Taken from www.joyoftech.com

bead 1

My hands dip into a basket of BEADS and I picked up a bead by Kerr, Stephen.

Kerr wrote on ASKING QUESTIONS about TECHNOLOGY and the SOCIAL WORLD of EDUCATION. This type bead was produced in 1985. Already back then, the issue above had / have been brought up. Now, it is a much discussed topic. Now is 2008.  And here I am thinking this issue is a recent as in late 1990s.

Magazine covers

Something caught my eye. Fake cover magazine. For those who wish to be on a front page magazine but never had the chance or will never have that chance. There are lots of them on the net. Most of them are free services. Of course, templates are provided while some providers give you the chance to change the layout and title etc. It was fun putting my photos on those cover page. You feel famous though the feeling is superficial.

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Elven Blood

I am addicted to digital games. I don’t often play them. But once one is shoved to me, you can kiss time, and my attention and my focus goodbye!! Of course, the aftermath of the whole thing will be “self guilt”. Recently, I was shoved to another game after receiving tonnes of invites from my friends in FACEBOOK.

ELVEN BLOOD – a RPG game. Somehow is more addictive than the other BLOOD series. Maybe, I am a sucker for medieval fantasy type game. In this game, there are many levels. You have to fight with tasks to collect points for your experience to level up. Along the way, there are items to collect and buy to increase your defense and attack points. I admit that I am very bad in deciding whether to level up my defense or attack points. You can also declare war on other players to collect gold and experience. The higher the level the opponent, the more stamina you need to attack.

Not to forget, you need to ask people to join your team. Certain tasks need an amount of party. The larger the party, the stronger your position. Anyway, I have been following tips from experience players. There are many players who blog their journey. Just google it up!

All right, back to my imagery world of ELVEN BLOOD.

CooL

Coolingly cool COOLIRIS

COOLIRIS tool is embedded to the browser. It works well with both Firefox and Explorer.

With C, you are able to not only search but also view images and videos the COOL way. By the way, it looks MAC-ish. The colour BLACK gives the tool a sophisticated touch.

There are EIGHT search engines for  to dig your images or videos.

FLICKR, DEVIANART, SMUGMUG, AMAZON, YAHOO, PHOTOBUCKET, YOUTUBE, GOOGLE.

Reduces your time in opening each and every search engine. COOLIRIS automatically shows you the relevant images of your choice. Scroll the album until you find the preferred image.

Enlarge the image /video – click on it – then it will bring you the page where u can download the item. DOWNSIDE: you cannot save the image from COOLIRIS platform.

OVERALL:Get it.

Video Paper Builder #1

VBP

Video Paper Builder (VBP) 3 is not about making video on building paper…(hmm..doesn’t sound funny here)

VBP 3 is a new open source tool which focuses on multimedia creation.  VPB3 was developed by the Seeing Math Telecommunications Project at the Concord Consortium

3.00 pm Anyway, i am playing with the tool. Still figuring how to insert the pages into the video. Reading through the use guides. IMO, not exactly user guide friendly. I am still grasping on how to understand how to put the pages into the time-line.

what happen so far

3.20 pm I am still stuck.

ICT2008 report

Something that should be read and give thought upon.

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf