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This is a tool which allows you to create an animated movie. You begin with 300 pts. and use up pts. depending on your choice of settings and actors. The animation occurs by changing camera shots and most of the input revolves around creating dialogue. []

Avatars are comic or caricature representations of yourself. The Voki, allows the user to enter some speech. Most avatars are loaded as jpeg files. There is a link below which takes you to a variety of avatar creating sites. http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Avatar+Makers

This is a blank template on which you can load text, photo, and video files, such as Youtube for the purpose of a presentation. What makes Prezi's interesting is that objects can be placed in the foreground and background depending on importance or relationship to other objects. Items can also be rotated. Users very simply select a viewing pathway that takes the viewer on a tour of their page in the order they wish to present information. Works well for concept formation, mind mapping, and concept mapping. [|http://prezi.com]

__Image Chef__ offers a wide range of image creations, including banners, flash objects, slideshows and more. Anything that moves is going to have embedding code, but other images are captured using a screen dump. [|www.imagechef.com]

This site allows students to use a variety of graphic organizers such as fishbones, timelines, jigsaws, and hamburger diagrams to name a few. It is also a tool to create simple game based interactive media. []

Load photos, videos, and text, add choice of music, and Animoto will sequence the media and present it in a flowing series of photos, or videos with musical backdrop. Students can create a 30 second video for free. []

Glogs are like poster with moving bits. Students can load multimedia similar to all the other formats and are offered a variety of Glog format with which to begin. They are easy enough to create, but as always you need to add text or other types of information to satisfy the learning goal. []

There are different ways to track who in the world is looking at your wiki. One way is through Google Analytics, another is through [|www.clustrmaps.com] which allows you to place a graphic on your page that displays visitors.

Youtube is, of course, a source for a wide range of resources, whether be it instructional video, animated clips, music videos or student created video. All youtube videos can be embeded into a wiki. [|www.youtube.com]

Wordle is a site that creates a word cloud. If you paste in the text from a document such as a story or report, or if you enter a list such as favourite things, wordle will arrange the words in interesting ways and size them according to frequency. The patterns can be changed using the randomize button until users find the most visually appealing display. Wordles are obtained by cutting a jpeg picture from a screen dump of the wordle creation. [|www.wordle.net]

-Bitstrips []

Make an avatar that has the opportunity to use your voice []

-Make a poster to represent your school []

-Create a Simpsons avatar []