Evaluation+of+Multimedia+Programs

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1. Name of the Program: VoiceThread 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Allows multimedia interaction between users with pictures, audio, video as well as comments. 4. Ease of Use: good. 5. Your reaction to the program: Overall it seems like a fairly user friendly program. It has a lot of capablilities at the same time, allowing the users to interact with a variety of different media.

1. Name of the Program: Wordle 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: The application allows you to create "word clouds" of text or vocabulary terms. 4. Ease of Use: Excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I like this one. It is simple and effective to use. It can create an interesting way to review vocabulary terms in my classes. In addition if you can get the text in a digital format it has the capability to Emphasize more important words and weight them.

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1. Name of the Program: Diigo 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: It is an online social bookmarking site. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This is an application that I can see as very useful to teachers and students alike. The ability to highlight, tag, and share information in a digital context.

1. Name of the Program: Interactive Quiz 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: It is an online gaming/review/quiz software 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: It is okay. I think there is better options out there to use as a review or quiz program. A little on the low end of graphics.

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1. Name of the Program: Mixbook 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Digital Storytelling and online scrapbook. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Basic online scrapbook format. Can upload pictures, select themes. Good, not great.

1. Name of the Program: Shape Collage 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Allows you to create custom picture collages. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Has basic features of other collage makers, however this one allows you to customize the shape. You can put the shape any format or form.

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1. Name of the Program: World Digital Library 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Digital Encyclopeida 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I found this site to be very interesting. On the login you get a map and can select a geographic region. When you choose you get a screen that allows you more selection about that region. You can search it by time, topic or place.

1. Name of the Program: Alice Storytelling 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Introductory computer programming software. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: It is used as a simple computer programming software, mostly for younger students. You can create stories as you program and have the characters interact.

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1. Name of the Program: Big Huge Labs 2. URL of program:http://bighugelabs.com/ 3. Purpose of the Program: allows the user to create digital objects from pictures. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This site allows you a lot of variety and flexibility in working with visual documents and pictures. I has badgemakers, cubes, mosaics, jigsaws and much more. This is a good site to have students create and report on a topic in a little different way than has been done in the past. Overall pretty easy to navigate and create as well, something any age group can do with a little guidance.

1. Name of the Program: Lovely Charts 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Online diagraming software. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program:This software allows you to create organizational charts, flow charts, network diagrams, and sitemaps quickly and easily. You can upload your own photos in a PNG or JPEG format to be used in the creation of your diagram. It has some template designs that can be chosen from to speed up the process as well.

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1. Name of the Program: My PicsMap 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Interactive map that displays pictures 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This map works with google to select locations and view pictures that have been placed on the site. It allows you to see pics from others that have been uploaded or you can upload your own from flickr.

1. Name of the Program: MusemBox 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create cubes 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This site allows you to create a cube on a topic. You can add text, pictures, and even videos onto sides of the cube to report or introduce information on a person or subject. Took a little time to load video.

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1. Name of the Program: Obsurvey 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Online survey 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Obsurvey does most of what the traditional online survey tools can do. You can input questions and it can recieve responses and feedback from those questions. It is pretty simple to set up and enter questions, you will have to create an account. I has some intersting features that can come into play after the surveys are tallied; it can report basic information on the survey or it can get more detailed by searching and filtering individual responses on the survey as well.

1. Name of the Program: Roohit 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Used a a digital highlighter. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This program is a digital highligter similar to Diggo. you simply type the web address before any website you want to visit and it allows you to highlight and mark text on the page. There is no application to download onto your computer which is nice. It also allows some social networking to view your highlighted sites or to view someone elses that may be related in some way to the information that you found. You can also instantly send and recieve highlights via e-mail.

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1. Name of the Program: Tagul 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Word picture creator 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Tagul allows you to create word pictures from text that you include. It could be a great way to review vocabulary from a unit or chapter as well as copy and paste an essay into it to see how frequently a student is using a particular word. In addition it allows you to place greater emphasis on major words.

1. Name of the Program: Dirpy 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Audio Extractor 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This website allows you to extract aduio from a video such as youtube. All you have to do is upload the URL of the video into the application and take the sound bites you wish. Easy to use and no downloads.

1. Name of the Program: GeoCube 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Geography cube creator 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Even though I don't teach in this subject area, I have to admit this is cool! It allows you to create "rubics cubes" on geography based content. It allows yo to place content directly onto the cube and users can interface with the cube through the mouse. I can see Jr. High kids really getting into this one.

1. Name of the Program: YouCube 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create video cube 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I liked this one as well. Maybe it is the cube thing? This site allows you to take youtube video and insert them on a cube. This would be a great way to introduce a topic to a classroom. Simple to use. Just upload the URL into the site and you can create a 3 Dimensional cube with videos on it.