Multimedia Tools

Multimedia Literacy

George Lucas

"In the 21st century, can you honestly tell me that it’s not as important for these students to know as much about Hitchcock as they do about Hemingway?”

“Well . . . I began to realize that the potential for multimedia to enhance the learning process was just astronomical. . . .  I’m a big proponent of a new kind of grammar that goes beyond words.  To tell a story now means grasping a new kind of language, which includes understanding how graphics, color, lines, music and words combine to convey meaning”

“Don’t you think that, in the coming decade, students need to be taught to read and write cinematic language, the language of the screen, the language of sound and image, just as they are now taught to read and write text?  Otherwise, won’t they be as illiterate as you or I would have been if, on leaving college, we were unable to read and write an essay?”

Helpful Tools for Multimedia Composition:

Prezi.com

PechaKucha

Presentationzen.com

Wordle.net

Dafont.com

Download.com

Issuu.com

Gmail

Google Voice

Drobbox

Sound:

Audacity.com

Jamendo.com

Aviary.com

Garageband/Sound Recorder

Images:

Creative Commons, Google, Flickr

SXC.hu

Aviary

Gimp

Paint.net

Web:

Komposer

Wix

Wordpress

Blogger

Moonfruit

Yola

Webs

Weebly

Sites.google.com.

Video:

youtubedownloader

Archive.org

Youtube

iMovie

Windows Movie Maker

Wax

Mpeg Streamclip

Perian

iReport

Games

Gamemaker

Facebook pages

Twitter

Flickr

Tumblr

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