30 days of webtools: #23 Use Mybrainshark to create online Powerpoints with voice plus more...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2NQz0e258Rf2ZhyphenhyphenAKbnLdlwfmQ6IrGPscBeP5Cg1PGgnjqNqy1STXkZaY_Eg9qHHPQcFKQGKr914JhJeKTaOYpvRzFLmWvJPP7ut-cLsk_lQDT8dU9C2NokbC2G90Eok43TxRDkujnRw/s1600/brainshark.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2NQz0e258Rf2ZhyphenhyphenAKbnLdlwfmQ6IrGPscBeP5Cg1PGgnjqNqy1STXkZaY_Eg9qHHPQcFKQGKr914JhJeKTaOYpvRzFLmWvJPP7ut-cLsk_lQDT8dU9C2NokbC2G90Eok43TxRDkujnRw/s200/brainshark.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mybrainshark is a place where you can easily create videos from your PowerPoint slides...but not only from PowerPoint slides! You can also add your voice to documents, a series of photos, and even voice over to a video or else the video with its own sounds. It is a fantastic free programme! So open Mybrainshark on <a href="http://www.brainshark.com/">http://www.brainshark.com</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>My first attempt: How to make a Mybrainshark</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first attempt at a Mybrainshark was just to upload a PowerPoint on how to make a Mybrainshark and add voice to it. I just loved how easy it was and how you could read your speaker notes from the PowerPoint on screen as you narrated. </span><br /><br /><object data="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/getplayer.ashx" height="366" id="bsplayer44771" name="bsplayer44771" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="440"><param name="movie" value="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/getplayer.ashx" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value="pi=557312354&dm=5&pause=1" /><a href="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/fallback.ashx?pi=557312354"><video width="440" height="366" controls="true" poster="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/common/getimage.ashx?pi=557312354&w=440&h=366&sln=1"><source src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/getmovie.aspx?pi=557312354&fmt=2" /><img border="0" height="366" src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/splash.aspx?pi=557312354" width="440" /></video></a></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>My second attempt: How to make a blog</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my second attempt I became more ambitious:<br /><br />a) I added a <i>PowerPoint</i> with voice on how to make a blog (in case you have come to the conclusion that you need your own blog to embed tools as you make them!) <br /><br />b) After add the PowerPoint I also added a <i>movie </i>with its own voice<i> </i>which was exciting - because that meant I had added two different media. <br /><br />c) Thirdly I added an <i>attachment</i> which was the PowerPoint I used for the webinar last night. By the way, if you hover your mouse at the top of this page you'll see the attachment - this evening's presentation!  Anyone can download the attachment by just clicking on it. How is that!!! </span><br /><br /><br /></div><object data="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/getplayer.ashx" height="366" id="bsplayer84941" name="bsplayer84941" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="440"><param name="movie" value="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/getplayer.ashx" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value="pi=374239858&dm=5&pause=1" /><a href="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/fallback.ashx?pi=374239858"><video width="440" height="366" controls="true" poster="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/common/getimage.ashx?pi=374239858&w=440&h=366&sln=1"><source src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/getmovie.aspx?pi=374239858&fmt=2" /><img border="0" height="366" src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/splash.aspx?pi=374239858" width="440" /></video></a></object></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Last night's webinar recording</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night's webinar was a short 15-20 minute presentation on how to make a Mybrainshark. The recording can be located at:</span><br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4tdhun88bb/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4tdhun88bb/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Classroom uses</b></span><br /><br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></div><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"></span><br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Photo journal of an outing with narration</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"><br />*Students can present a good project with a great mix of media</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">*Great for a flipped classroom experience – giving instructions via a blog with voice</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"><br />*If a teacher can’t be in a class that day she can send instructions this way. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"><br />*My brainshark is useful for listening skills lessons where just the podcast section can be </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">used.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"><br />*The fact that you can edit everything at any time means it</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">also allows reflection as learners get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">a chance to produce, present, edit, re-present, re-appraise during a further presentation.</span></span></div><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"></span><br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">*Students could make a short film as part of a project and add a commentary.  They could, for example, detail information about how the film was made, where it was filmed and why they directed it in a certain way.   The original film needs to have no or minimal sound as voiceover </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.38in;">can be added.  Background music can be added </span></div><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"></span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">There must be a whole lot more uses that I haven't yet thought of. </span><br /><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.68pt; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.68pt; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Further reading</b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.68pt; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2n6Y5lKCo8">1) A quick tour of MyBrainshark video</a></span></div></div></div>

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