Animoto

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

"ANIMOTO"

Animoto is one of the marvels of Web 2.0. It is a wonderful initiative and a true benefit to teachers and students. 

— Discovery Education

            Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music.

               Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music, using them to generate a video similar to a trailer. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing a unique video every time. The site also claims that no two videos are ever the same.

History

Animoto was founded on August 2006, and launched as a website on August 14, 2007.

Animoto is based in New York, with an office in San Francisco.

While attending the SXSW Interactive Festival in March 2008, Animoto launched their own Facebook application.^[7] It became a popular way for users to showcase their photos on the social network.

The Animoto Facebook application experienced so much viral growth in April 2008, that it became one of Amazon Web Services's cloud computing success stories. By mid-April, Animoto's Facebook application had nearly 750,000 people sign up in three days. At the peak, almost 25,000 people tried Animoto in a single hour. Amazon Web Services's ability to meet the demand of Animoto's viral Facebook application resulted in Amazon.com's eventual investment in Animoto. Jeff Bezos includes Animoto in speeches he gives regarding Amazon Web Services.

Along with releasing the Animoto Facebook application in March 2008, Animoto was also a YouTube launch partner for YouTube's API. Animoto was integrated with YouTube, allowing users to export Animoto videos directly to YouTube easily. As of August 2009, nearly 250,000 videos have been uploaded to YouTube.

On June 2008, Animoto introduced DVD-quality upgrades for users, allowing them to watch their videos on a television.

By July 2008, Animoto for Business and Animoto for Educationwere launched. Animoto for Education gives teachers and students unlimited access to its full-length video making services for free, while Animoto for Business allows for Animoto to be used commercially.

Since an overwhelming number of professional photographers started to use the Animoto for Business product, Animoto for Photography ^]was launched in October 2008 at PhotoPlus in New York City. Since launching, Animoto for Photography has attended every national photography convention, including the Professional Photographers of America's Imaging Conference & WPPI. Animoto for Real Estate is another off-shoot of the commercial product, which officially launched at the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco in July 2009. Animoto's pro-package is a White-label product.

In June 2009, the Animoto iPhone app was launched, allowing iPhone users to create video using pictures taken on their phone.

In August 2009, Animoto launched the ability to upload video clips, along with still images. This has been the largest advance to the Animoto offering thus far.

In April 2011 the company added functionality for Apple TV and AirPlay users. 

What makes an Animoto special?

Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Browse some of the features of our Plus account below then check out individual case studies to see how others are already using us.

CINEMATIC  A.I.

Animoto automatically analyzes music, photos and video clips, and orchestrates a custom video. Leaving you and your students free to focus on the content and narrative of their videos.

INCLUDE TEXT

Mix relevant messaging, statistics and quotes among the pictures your videos to educate your audience and inspire them to action.

SPOTLIGHT

Spotlight lets you give specific image added prominence and screen time in your video.

SHARE AND DOWNLOAD

Animoto makes it easy to share your videos via email, on a blog/website, exported to YouTube, or downloaded to a computer for use in presentations.

How Educators Are Using Animoto In The Classroom 

Please follow the link below:

 http://animoto.com/samples/education/Nu5hBEoaoLjnDSsN9Q1wVw

For Multiple Intelligences 

1.Conduct a demo teaching that shows a teacher using  conceptual approach in teaching. Create a slide show of pictures during your demo teaching. 

Lecture Fox

Free lectures in English from the top universities all over the world, it sounds good, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what “Lecturefox” offers. It consists of a web page with links to more than 500 free lectures from prestigious universities such as: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Clatech, MIT, UC Berkeley, Edinburgh, Boise State, Princeton, Rice and a large etcetera.

These lectures in English are in a variety of formats (video, audio and text) and are organized mainly in 5 categories:

• Physics: with lectures as attractive as, "Fundamentals of Physics", "Introduction to General Astronomy", "Exploring Black Holes", "The Atom Chip", "Einstein's General Relativity", "The Sounds of Music", and hundreds more.

• Chemistry: it contains 12 very interesting lectures (to present); "Principles of Chemical Science", "Teaching the Second Law", "Thermodynamics and Kinetics", and so on.

• Computer Science: more than two hundred lectures about the very latest topics such as, "Understanding Computers and the Internet", "Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography", "Software Breakthroughs (Bill Gates)", "The Semantic Web (Tim Berners-Lee)", and more. Moreover, for those interested in learning about programming and coding, there are lectures about: "Introduction to Algorithms", "Programming Languages", "Data Structures and Advanced Programming", "Introduction to Computer Science (Java)", "Introduction to Symbolic Programming", "HTML, CSS, Javascript (Screencasts)" and much more.

• Mathematics: hundreds of lectures about many fields in maths, "Linear Algebra", "Introduction to Statistics", "Differential Equations", "Solving Cubic Equations", " Mathematical Methods for Engineers I", "Calculus I", "Fourier Analysis", etc.

• Faculty Mix: many lectures from a mix of faculties, Psychology ("Positive Psychology", "Introduction to Psychology" ...), Religion ("Introduction to the Old Testament", "Death” ...), Sports ("Tennis", "Scuba Diving" ...) and much more besides that you’ll surely find interesting.

http://learnenglishfromhome.blogspot.com/2008/09/lecturefoxcom.html

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prepared By: Steven Jay Silah

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JOHN VINCENT P. AMOGUIS
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RHEA NOVA P. TINDUGAN
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STEVEN JAY A. SILAH

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Merlot

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching

In 1997, the California State University Center for Distributed Learning (CSU-CDL at www.cdl.edu) developed and provided free access to MERLOT (www.merlot.org). Under the leadership of Chuck Schneebeck, CSU-CDL's Director, MERLOT was modeled after the NSF funded project, "Authoring Tools and An Educational Object Economy (EOE)". Led by Dr. James Spohre and hosted by Apple Computer, and other industry, university, and government collaborators, the EOE developed and distributed tools to enable the formation of communities engaged in building shared knowledge bases of learning materials.

In 1998, a State Higher Education Executives Organization/American Productivity and Quality Center (SHEEO/APQC) benchmarking study on faculty development and instructional technology selected the CSU-CDL as one of six best practices centers in North America. Visitations to the CSU-CDL by higher education institutions participating in the benchmarking students resulted in interest in collaborating with the CSU on the MERLOT project. The University of Georgia System, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, University of North Carolina System, and the California State University System created an informal consortium representing almost one hundred campuses serving over 900,000 students and over 47,000 faculty. SHEEO was the coordinator for the cooperative of the four state systems.

In 1999, the four systems recognized the significant benefits of a cooperative initiative to expand the MERLOT collections, conduct peer reviews of the digital learning materials, and add student learning assignments. Each system contributed $20,000 in cash to develop the MERLOT software and over $30,000 in in-kind support to advance the collaborative project. The CSU maintained its leadership of and responsibilities for the operation and improvement of processes and tools.

In January, 2000, the four systems sponsored 48 faculty from the disciplines of Biology, Physics, Business and Teacher Education (12 faculty from each of the four systems) to develop evaluation standards and peer review processes for on-line teaching-learning material. In April, 2000, other systems and institutions of higher education were invited to join the MERLOT cooperative. In July, 2000, twenty-three (23) systems and institutions of higher education had become Institutional Partners of MERLOT. Each Institutional Partner contributed $25,000 and in-kind support for eight faculty and a project director (part-time) to coordinate MERLOT activities. The CSU continued its leadership of and responsibilities for the operation and improvement of processes and tools.

MERLOT continues to invite Institutional Partners and professional discipline organizations to join the cooperative endeavor. It is recognizes that the scope of coordination activities and the requirements for sustaining MERLOT is rapidly increasing. Maturing the organization is critical for its long-term success. To that end, MERLOT is advancing the current collaborative framework, exploring a variety of business models, and developing its sustainability plan so MERLOT can serve the current and future academic technology needs of faculty, students, staff, and institutions.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.   MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

MERLOT’s activities are based on the creative collaboration and support of its Individual Members, 
Institutional Partners, Corporate Partners and Editorial Boards. 

Integral to MERLOT’s continuing development of faculty development support services are its:

•       Building and sustaining online academic communities

•       Online teaching and learning initiatives

•       Building, organizing, reviewing, and developing applications of online teaching-learning materials

MERLOT maintains its currency through ongoing and continuing communication with its worldwide supporters in a variety of ways, including the annual MERLOT International Conference, the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), member publications, news, and our new Voices website to enable MERLOT users to communication with others.

Merlot is about Multimedia Resources for learning and online teaching. this refers to the sources of learning and teaching that would apply long distance learning. This teaching is not in a real corner of the school perimeter but about the online teaching and learning process in which, students with no time to go too school could visit and log-in to this cite for them to be taught of their desired things to be learned.
In this cite you can choose your field on what are you going to learn


prepared by: Steven Jay Silah

EVOCA

Evoca says that “Everyone’s voice counts”

We launched Evoca in 2006 as a voice-to-web subscription service to make it easy to record and publish anyone’s voice using mobile, landline and smartphones, tablets and computers. From the start, we introduced better and faster ways to create valuable audio content from solo voice recordings, interviews, conference calls, Skype calls, and record directly from an online recorder used with any computer microphone. We went on to offer online record plugins for popular blog and web software such as WordPress, Drupal, Blogger, and TypePad. On the publishing side, streaming voice is one of our strengths. Posting MP3 recordings for playback through player widgets on blogs and websites was an early feature that we have expanded to posting to Facebook and Twitter.

Our second platform, Evoca Enterprise™, is our enterprise-class multimedia software platform that integrates many of the same voice recording, management, and publishing features – and more – with the added benefit of being completely “brandable” and highly scalable. It is an ideal option for companies and other web services to integrate useful Evoca features using our flexible application programming interface [RESTful HTTP API.]

All of your recordings are securely stored in our proprietary application that instantly converts all recordings into MP3 format. Customers, followers, and fans can playback from any smartphone, tablet or web browser since we auto-detect browsers to stream using Flash, iFrame, or HTML audio tags.

Make voice a choice and put the power of Evoca to work for you:

Visit our How It Works section to learn more.

§  Turn any phone — mobile, smartphone or landline — into a digital recorder — using any worldwide Evoca phone number

§  Record solo voices – your own or your followers, fans, or customers

§  Record phone interviews

§  Record phone conference calls

§  Record Skype calls — solo voices, interviews, and conference calls

§  Invite recording by phone or online recorder from your audience with a Local or Toll-free Plan

§  Save and access MP3 recordings online through our secure cloud computing technology

§  Share voice online and by email for playback online or from any smartphone or tablet

§  Add standard or customizable players to your website or blog

§  Capture blog comments and publish the ones you want for others to listen in

§  Customize welcome messages for your dedicated, private phone number

§  Get local or toll-free numbers that customers call to record their opinions and stories

§  Quickly post voice updates to Facebook, Twitter and WordPress blogs

Evoca is the perfect tool for journalists, educators, students, marketers, candidates, writers, researchers, storytellers, genealogists, business people, and more.  Try it free for 30 days or sign upfor a Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription to start creating recordings of any length and keep it private or share it with the world.

          Evoca is the fastest way to instantly record your own voice by phone, Skype, or computer mic and capture phone and Skype interviews and conference calls. Invite other people to record to your embedded online recorder or dedicated phone number. We safely save and store your valuable recordings online in digital MP3 format in your secure, online Evoca account. You no longer need to record calls, reformat them, and  then spend time uploading them. Login to your secure online Evoca account and simply click to listen, email, publish to your website, blog, Facebook or Twitter. You and your visitors can playback recordings on any computer, smartphone or tablet or keep them completely private.

Here’s how to rercord using Evoca Skype: