Showing posts with label images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label images. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Add tags to images: use ThingLink

uThis is a useful application which is free for iPads and there is a website allows to add tags to web links, comments, photos, or videos.If you want you can search and embed YouTube videos. This applications is idealto make interactive reports, digital portfolios, tagged maps, learning summaries, interactive book talks, talking artwork, history projects, study guides, and much more. Once your students have all images tagged, you can link students´projects on ThingLink and embed them in a wiki, too. This is a ThingLink I created:

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Add text to images with Pinwords

PinPinwords is a free tool which doesn`t require to be registered. It is very useful when you want to write on images: you can upload them from your computer or website. If you don`t want to do it, you can choose backgrounds or try their bookmarklet. You have many options to place your title:tape, typewriter, wide, just caption, titled or handwritten note.Once you write the words you can pin the image. Having the pin button is a great advantage because your students cac create a board in pinterest for a project.Pictures can also be shared via twitter: you can tweet a picture and your students can tweet about it. Other alternatives are to use Tumblr or e-mail to work with your students. This is an example:

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Make tutorials with SlideTalk

Some of the advantages of this free tool is that you can combine images with powerpoints, upload them one by one and then give them voice which makes your tutorial realistic and clearer. Besides, you can edit slides and share your video automatically exported to YouTube in many social networks. This is a SlideTalk by me: