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Amazon Storyteller

Amazon Storyteller

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Cinco herramientas gratuitas para crear vídeos interactivos El vídeo interactivo amplía las posibilidades narrativas del formato audiovisual digital. Su desarrollo es progresivo y actualmente existe una variada oferta de soluciones tecnológicas profesionales para crearlos. No obstante, también hay opciones gratuitas para el usuario ocasional o individual. Cuando Youtube incluyó su servicio de “anotaciones” dio alas a la imaginación de muchos creadores. El simple hecho de incluir botones enlazados a vídeos permite crear relatos no lineales. Es una opción gratuita extensamente utilizada.

Ed Blog» Blog Archive Meet the Animator – Jessica Oreck talks to TED-Ed about the Mysteries of Vernacular « The mystery of pants finally solved. This week, TED-Ed is excited to roll out a featured mini-series all about the wacky way that words evolve. All those questions you have about the English language, where words come from, and why we say the things we do. 12 ways of creating stories with your EFL students I’ve been reading a fair amount recently about the value of storytelling – and, in particular, the telling of vivid and emotionally-engaging stories – to memory in general, and vocabulary-learning and grammar practice more specifically. It certainly seems that learning new words from a list is a duller and less efficient alternative to acquiring and retaining new vocabulary than involving your learners in narratives using the target words. With this in mind, here are four ways you can involve your learners in creating stories around particular lexical or grammatical themes, and a list (and brief descriptions!) of eight other methods from various corners of this site:

Making A Legendary Movie Trailer With iMovie On The iPad Movie Trailers are a great little creative project that makes putting together a professional looking video really easy. Jeffery wrote a tutorial before on how to make one using iMovie on the Mac, but I’ve been meaning to show you how to do the same using just your iPad (or iPhone). Today I’ll be using my iPad to make a trailer featuring myself and the mischievous little ferret that wandered into my house last week and decided to stay. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible on the original iPad – you’ll need an iPad 2 or the newest generation one; an iPhone 4 or later can also be used, but I’ll demonstrate with an iPad as it’s easier to work with the larger screen. Getting Started – Movie clips There are two ways to get the source video to be used in your project.

Fairy Tales Gone Wild: 10 Creative Ways to Teach Fairy Tales Fractured fairy tales are a great way to help students see how story elements—like character, plot, setting—shape the stories we read and write. What do we call it when an author takes a classic fairy tale and changes it into something completely different? It's called a fractured fairy tale. And kids love them. "It's by far my students' favorite language arts unit every year," writes teacher Jessie Averson, a second grade teacher in Tennessee. storyboards What is a storyboard? Once a concept or script is written for a film or animation, the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story of an animation panel by panel, kind of like a comic book. Your storyboard will should convey some of the following information: What charaters are in the frame, and how are they moving?

Psychology and ELT – Story-Generating Activities ‘Getting learners to do what comes naturally to them’ Geometric Thriller: Look at the screen below. What do you see inside the frame? Well, clearly, there is an open box and three geometric shapes: a large triangle, a smaller one and a small circle.

Collapsus - Energy Risk Conspiracy Collapsus is an immersive web experience set in a near-future world after peak oil, where conspiracy and treason are rife. Against a dramatic backdrop of global energy politics, Collapsus combines interactivity with animation, fiction and documentary, inviting the user to embark on a quest to collect information, find solutions, and make crucial decisions that will leave their mark on a national and a global scale.www.collapsus.com See also our interview with the creators and producers of Collapsus and our walkthrough of Collapsus with audio commentary by director Tommy Pallotta. Awards Collapsus received an Emmy nomination for Best Digital Fiction, a People’s Choice Award and Interactive Award nominations at SXSW 2011, the Dutch Spin Award, and a World Summit Award. Collapsus.com is a Submarine Channel production in co-production with VPRO Backlight.

Digital paper prototyping - Free trial available - by Pidoco Try digital paper prototyping with Pidoco! If you frequently resort to paper prototyping Pidoco is the right tool for you to try! Pidoco is an online user interface design software that helps create rough sketches (wireframes) and outlines of user interfaces. They look a lot like the drawings done with paper prototyping, but they can be created in a matter of minutes and easily changed and updated as needed. Traditional vs digital paper prototyping

Mobile App Prototyping Made Easy 128 bit SSL encryption We take your privacy seriously. That's why we have integrated 128 bit SSL encryption, the most powerful security out there, into our app. Your ideas and data are safe with us. 10 Completely Free Wireframing and Mockup Tools The wireframing process is the straight-to-the-point and completely non-tech stage of any web project. It only requires that you define a skeletal outline of essential page elements such as headers, footers, navigation and content area and should illustrate how to cater and respond to any possible interaction from a user. It is the most important, yet underused, stage of any web or apps development. There are several avenues you could take for sketching a wireframe, most notably pen and paper (the easiest and most cost effective way), but for the sake of this article we have focused on apps that are not only highly effective and easy to use, they are also completely free.

20 Best UX design and Wireframing Tools for Mobile Cloud, itself is purely a set of empowering technologies. I believe that adoption of cloud on a mass level is pending only due to absolute ubiquity of the devices that can stay connected all the time. Another hurdle in adoption is the user experience and designing a cloud computing that makes user experience invisible. The best thing about cloud is that it gives you freedom of being mobile and you can always stay connected with the much needed information as well. A lot of cloud based UX design tools are being introduced and used in order to help the process of mood board’s creation.

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