IMAGE TOOLS

A picture is worth a thousand words, so goes the saying. Thus, an image can play a very relevant part in a presentation, a lesson, a project, an online course, in the ego of young learners....

There are different tools in the Web to work with images, some to exhibit them, others to create stories around them - for digital storytelling.

Here are different tools and different examples of different uses given to images.

For working online

Bubbleshare < http://www.bubbleshare.com >

• Photo album (e-Learning Awards 2007: demo of an IWB)
• Art Gallery (my YLs drawings)
• Overview of a course (BaW07) - Dafne Gonzalez and Teresa Almeida d'Eça
• Introducing two speakers: A joint path (students can introduce themselves and talk about their life through images and text in the subtitles) - Dafne Gonzalez and Teresa Almeida d'Eça

Flickr < http://www.flickr.com/ >

• Course work (Muvenation08)

Animated movies

Zimmertwins < http://www.zimmertwins.ca/ >

• My loves & hates (an example created by me to motivate my students to this software; it's based on structures we had studied)

Comics

MakeBeliefsComix < http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ >

• Global Flu Cook Book (included in BaW07 Extras)

For working offline

PhotoStory < http://tinyurl.com/48jvat >

• APPI 2006
• Vasco da Gama Bridge (created only with Web materials for an Architecture and Urban Planning course in Caracas, Venezuela)

Image tools

Animated movies and comics

Dvolver < http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html >

GoAnimate! < http://goanimate.com/ >

MakeBeliefsComix < http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ >

Witty Comics < http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php >

Zimmertwins < http://www.zimmertwins.ca/ >

Photos, drawings, course work and presentations

Bubbleshare < http://www.bubbleshare.com/ >

Flickr < http://www.flickr.com/ > (see an example used for Course work )

Picturetrail < http://www.picturetrail.com >

Tag Galaxy < http://taggalaxy.de/ >