Thinking Visually: Online Photo, Video and Presentation Tools Visual Literacy defined: The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading.
A video sharing site, with social components. Educators that are able to access YouTube find there are many clips available to strengthen a subjects' curriculum. Many viewers of YouTube videos are there to be entertained, however good searching can turn up educational value as well. In addition to viewing content on the video sharing site, users are able to save favorites, create playlists, have their own channel, leave comments for others, and subscribe to videos by topic, user, etc... Allowing student access to YouTube is not the norm, as there is plenty of inappropriate content. However, there are alternatives for educational use. The video to the right would be great for use in a social studies class! The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for
sharing instructional videos. They hope to have a community that is
educationally focused, a safe venue for teachers, schools, and home
learners. The site provides anytime, anywhere professional
development with teachers teaching teachers. Teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order
to learn a concept or skill.  Teachers can use TeacherTube to host videos for their students when they don't have the ability to host them on their own. Teacher Tube conveniently offers code that permits the videos to be embedded in other places, such as wikis or blogs. Student created media that is uploaded to TeacherTube can than be shared to other locations, reducing problems with size limitations placed by some sites. The site is monitored by the members, and all have the ability to flag inappropriate videos, thereby making the site more accessible to educators. Click here to view the video, Demonstrating How Muscles Work, which is available on the Learn to Be Healthy channel. Just one of many educational channels on Teacher Tube. It's also possible to create your own groups at TeacherTube for sharing videos created with/by students. From the site: Splash Media is a company that can help build online learning centers. They use a state-of-the-art
broadcast television studio to create and deliver engaging and
effective content. Their technology team then loads the content into a next generation eTraining or IPTV platform to be distributed to
end users. The result is one of the most innovative, convenient and
cost-effective solutions for communicating with and training your
employees and customers across the globe.  Slideshare currently supports uploading of PowerPoint (ppt, pps, pot) Keynote, PDF, and OpenOffice (odp) file type. SlideShare offers social tools, such as commenting and sharing to social sites. They also offer organization tools, such as Favorites and widgets for sharing content. Slide is an online service used to create still or animated slideshows to share on various social networking sites. In addition, users can apply effects to their shows, such as text overlays and provided themes and backgrounds. The site makes it easy to share creations to sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Photobucket and more. There are few templates for sharing video too. From the site: Slide is the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications. We offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased activity, advertisers benefit from an exuberant audience, and our users can share favorite videos, send virtual lattes or even throw sheep at each other.
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