Evaluation+of+Multimedia+Programs

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1. Name of the Program: Glogster 2. URL of program: http://edu.glogster.com/ 3. Purpose of the Program: Student can create an online poster. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Glogster is a great way to integrate technology into specific projects in the classroom. Student are can present information to a classroom or teacher by using their individual and creative skills.

1. Name of the Program: Culture Crossing 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: A community built guide to cross-cultural etiquette & understanding. You are able to find information on 200+ countries, add your own knowledge to their guides, ask questions and chat with other users and experts, connect directly with community members from around the world and access global resources (info directly from culturecrossing.net). 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Students can get to know the world by exploring different areas of the country. You will find basic facts, business and educational information about a variety of countries. This program would be great when studying countries in grade 3-5.

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1. Name of the Program: Digital Vault 2. URL of program: []# 3. Purpose of the Program: Digital Vault is a place where historical records, photos and documents are kept. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I think this program is easy to use and visual stimulating. It is a great site to see how historical events are linked together through pathways. A user can also collect, backtrack, search, and create threir own historical pathway using a poster or movie within the site.

1. Name of the Program: Embed It 2. URL of program: http://embedit.in/ 3. Purpose of the Program: Embed It allows you to show/embed documents onto a website instead of using a hyperlink. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I really liked this program. It was very easy to use. I was able to embed a document into my wiki within seconds.

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1. Name of the Program: My Story Maker 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create an Online Story 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This program is an easy, interactive program to help students create stories with characters, props, and settings. Sentences are created for the student and they can print out their stories. I think this program would allow students to see a sequential order of a story. I would use with my kindergarten through second or third grade classes.

1. Name of the Program: Myth and Legends 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: This site allows students to create and publish their own myth. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great interactive site to use during a Myth and Legend unit. Students can create their own unique myth or legend using this site. I would use this with my upper grades. I feel there is a few more instructions to be introduced to students before they would start.

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1. Name of the Program:World Digital Library 2. URL of program:http://www.wdl.org/en# 3. Purpose of the Program: Resource to find digital information on material from countries and cultures around the world. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I am going to introduce this program to my upper level teachers so they have it to use an an educational/curriculum tool to use during Social Studies. I like how it is visually stimulating for students. It gets them engaged by showing pictures of specific topics. The timeline is also a great feature to use.

1. Name of the Program: Storytelling Alice 2. URL of program:http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/ 3. Purpose of the Program: Create a digital 3-D Story 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I really like this site. I am going to incorporte this into my curriculum this year. I already use scratch and see this as a similar program that would definiately interest students. I can only imagine what they could create!

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1. Name of the Program: Big Huge Labs 2. URL of program: http://bighugelabs.com/education.php 3. Purpose of the Program: Students can create a variety multimedia projects using Big Huge Labs. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This year I was introduced to Big Huge Labs by a co-worker. I think this is a great site for students and very user friendly. I like that they have where you can create an education account.

1. Name of the Program: Lexipedia 2. URL of program:http://www.lexipedia.com/ 3. Purpose of the Program: Visual Word Site 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This site was easy to use. Introducing this site to students will help them visualize specific words they are looking for. Students will be able to see the specific parts of speech and other relationships of the word.

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1. Name of the Program: Muesum Box 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: This site provides the tools build a description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Muesum Box is a great site for history teachers. It was easy to use. History teachers can integrate this site into their curriculum as a differientiated lesson.

1. Name of the Program: My Pics Map 2. URL of program:http://www.mypicsmap.com/explore 3. Purpose of the Program: A place where google maps and flickr pictures are put together for exploring and viewing. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I think this is a good site to use when students are exploring areas of a country. It is very easy to use. Pictures are great visual images that show unique cultural traditions and important landmarks.

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1. Name of the Program: Picture Book Maker 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create a children's picture book 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Picture Book Maker is a good program that is easy to use. It is limited to images you can add to your book. Overall it is a program that could be introduced to lower elementary students to create a digital book.

1. Name of the Program:Panraven 2. URL of program:http://www.panraven.com/home/homepage.html 3. Purpose of the Program:Digital stories that can be uploaded or printed out. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Panraven is another site for digital storytelling. It is nice that you can access and update it anytime and anywhere since it is a online site which stores your information. I don't think I would use it as an elementary teacher since you can not have an education account where you can put in students under a teacher account.

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1. Name of the Program: Storybird 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Collaborative Storytelling to make short visual stories 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: WOW, great digital storytelling program for young students. Teachers could create a story as a whole class first but I think students would take this program and run with it. It is very basic and uses drop and drag to help student create and navigate through the program.

1. Name of the Program: Story Cove 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Interactive Storytelling Site for Kindergarteners through Third Grade 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: There are many great stories where students can listen to the book or play the movie. Stories are from a variety of different countries. It is also great that they have lesson plans and activites to go along with each story keep students engaged. Story Cove would be a great site for teachers when trying to find specific literature from other countries such as Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa.

1. Name of the Program: Tikatok 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create stories and books to share online or purchase. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I really like Tikatok and the storyspark option. There are three options for students Books to Go, StorySparks, and Start from Scrach. Tikatok allows students to start a point in story writing where they feel comfortable. This site also allows teachers to use differiated instruction. Sometimes students can not think of an idea and storyspark provides a variety of ideas to help they get started. Tikatok will take you step by step on how to create your story.

1. Name of the Program: Wordnik 2. URL of program:http://www.wordnik.com/ 3. Purpose of the Program: 4. Ease of Use: poor good excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This site is very easy to use. As a teacher, I would use this site at the beginning of the week to introduce my WOW words (words of the week). Wordnik gives you the definition of the word, pronunciation, images, translations and more.