Need Suggestions for Verbal Project

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Pilgreen on April 11, 2011 at 5:02pm

Cynthia,

I have students make movie trailers for books using Movie Maker.  It's already installed on our computers as part of the Microsoft Office Suite.  Not sure if your school's computers have it or not.  If you are a Mac school, Macs use a similar program called Garage Band, which I'm told also looks great.  I've also used Photo Story 3, which a free download from Windows.  That would be a good option if you do not have Movie Maker already installed.  There's also a program available for free online called Jaycut.  I've never used it, but it looks very similar to Movie Maker.  Hope this helps!

 

Jessica

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Ryan on April 12, 2011 at 9:22am

ah jessica you beat me to it!

Permalink Reply by Kelly Ryan on April 12, 2011 at 9:22am

Hi Cynthia-

 

I work with Microsoft's Education public sector and pr and from what we hear...teachers love Windows Live Movie Maker. You can put video and photos together, use special effects and transitions, add sound to create a terrific, and highly-polished movies. Best of all: It’s FREE!

 

Here’s a classroom guide for it (ideas and overview) http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/windows_movie_ma...

And they download it here (this link is also on the page above) http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other

 

Hope this helps!

Permalink Reply by C. Hitz on April 16, 2011 at 7:42am

Thanks Jessica and Kelly  - Windows Movie Maker or iMovie sounds like a good choice.  I have iMovie on my computer and the tech dept. told me they could update it to iMovie11.  But I should familiarize myself with Windows Movie Maker too because that's probably what most of my students will have available to them.  Thanks for the links.

Cyntia