Media Creation Apps
Adobe Spark Page is a website and iPad app for quickly creating text and photo-based scrolling narratives and grid-based photo galleries. The app allows you to add titles, subtitles, icons, photos, and different themes to create magazine-style layouts. Adobe Spark Page could be used for journaling, digital student portfolio creation, documenting events, digital biographies, book reviews, and even virtual field trips. Completed projects can be shared via social media or email, instant message, hyperlink, or embedded on a blog or website.
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Adobe Spark Video is a website and an iPhone and iPad app that lets you create quick animated videos. There is no need to film anything-just talk to tell your story. You can add icons, images from the app or the web, take and upload your own photos, add background music, and even text in your own color and font. Finished products can be share via social media, sent via email, or uploaded to your own webpage.
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Magisto is a video editing tool that lets you turn your iPad into a smart video camera. Just shoot plain videos and Magisto turns them into beautifully edited and produced movies automatically, complete with music and effects. Magisto analyzes your videos and photos and stitches them together into a professional looking movie. Completed projects can be easily shared to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and through email. Premium versions of the app ($5/month, $20/year) allow for the creation of longer movies and cloud storage.
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Fotobabble is a free online tool that allows students to take a picture or insert an image from the camera and then record up to five minutes of audio. Completed Fotobabble projects can be shared via email, Facebook, or Twitter and also embedded in web sites or blogs. Audio editing is limited to re-record, but there are visual effects that you can use to enhance your photo.
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VoiceThread allows you to talk, type, and draw right on the screen and around documents, diagrams and videos. The app allows you to add images and videos from your device and flip through pages and annotate slides while you narrate. Finished products can be shared via email and saved to an online account.
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