I chose to look at Voki, Vibby and Adobe Spark. The Voki website allows you to create avatars that you can use within your teaching. I plan to use an avatar to deliver comprehension questions and a google form to grade them. The biggest barrier with this website was figuring out how to import them into documents. It is doable, it just takes a little time. Overall, there are a lot of great how to videos that walk you through each step.
I also looked at Vibby. This website was very frustrating because I tried searching for videos that would relate to the standards that I teach and I came up empty handed. Needless to say, I was not impressed with what videos I had to choose from. I then decided to look at Adobe Spark. Here I was able to create my own video using pictures and individual voice recording for each slide. I did have a few problems creating my video. For some reason, I had multiple voice recording for the same slides when I would view the video. When I tried to delete the voice recording it fixed the problem and there was only one voice until I shared the link. Then those slides didn’t have any voice recording. I ended up deleting the slides and starting over. I also had trouble when adding my own picture. While saving, the program automatically switched my picture from landscape to portrait, so that is why I have a sideways picture in my video. Another note is that your link doesn’t automatically update, so if you make changes to your presentation you have to manually update it. Overall, I think that my students will be excited to learn about how they can help our environment. Students should not just be ‘watching’ a video for homework or classwork. They need to be interacting with the content by answering questions throughout the video, using a graphic organizer for note taking or completing a Google form/quiz at the end of the video. These strategies help bring meaning into the video that you are assigning.
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Mayra De la Torre
4/16/2018 10:32:59 pm
I was also interested in adobe spark, but I couldn't get the tool to open on my computer. It sounds like it is pretty simple for students to use. I'm going to have to try to use it with the school computer.
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Scott Marsden
4/17/2018 07:26:44 pm
Stephanie,
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helen
4/18/2018 08:28:21 pm
I agree with your comments about Adobe Spark, I tried several times to use it and could not get the voice to record correctly, and I did not like to have to save every 30 seconds, and I think this app is too difficult for third grade.
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