Evaluation+of+Multimedia+Programs

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1. Name of the Program: Glogster 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: to create posters which can include multimedia (video, text, hyperlinks) 4. Ease of Use: good/excellent--easy to manipulate 5. Your reaction to the program: It is easy to create a poster with the tools provided or pics/videos can be uploaded. I can see how some students will really make theirs artistic and visually appealing, but some would struggle with having clutter.

1. Name of the Program: BookRix 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: to create and/or read online books (by amateur authors). 4. Ease of Use: poor/good--was slow to change pages and not easy to search titles 5. Your reaction to the program: We will be doing a project in our 8th grade class, "Rock On!" where students will be using only song lyrics to write a story. This would be a fun way to publish and achieve their stories. Their own art work could be scanned in for the illustrations.

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1. Name of the Program: Interactive Quiz 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create video game style games based on teacher-created questions. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Teacher must write 10 questions/answers to use the program. My fear is that students might worry too much about playing the game, rather than the content being reviewed.

1. Name of the Program: Digital Vaults 2. URL of program: []# 3. Purpose of the Program: To provide access to primary source documents on various historical documents. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Each document has a brief description of the item. When an item is selected, similar/related documents create a web around it. What a great way for students to see historical pictures and documents.

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1. Name of the Program: Shmoop 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To provide information and study guides on various topics 4. Ease of Use: poor/good 5. Your reaction to the program: There is a music section with a limited number of pop songs. Each song has a paragraph of background information and a YouTube video of the performance.

1. Name of the Program: Shape Collage 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create a picture/shape with a collage of pictures. 4. Ease of Use: good/excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: It is very easy to upload a large quantity of photos at one time. You can upload a picture to use as the outline for the collage or use PowerPoint (save as jpeg) to create large word forms.

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1. Name of the Program: World Digital Library 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To provide access to primary source documents and information on various cultures around the world. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Information is sorted by region of the world which makes it easy to locate specific information on a particular region. This site could be useful for our study of historical music periods as well as world music.

1. Name of the Program: Widgenie 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create embeddable widgets to display data in graph form. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This program takes data from an Excel spreadsheet or similar programs and creates graph that can be included in websites. As long as data is formatted following the specific rules, the graphs are easy to create.

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1. Name of the Program: Capzles 2. URL of program: []# 3. Purpose of the Program: To create very dramatic and interactive timelines. 4. Ease of Use: good/excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Some of the existing timelines are very nicely done. Timelines include multiple pictures and "text documents" describing the events. The shows flow nicely.

1. Name of the Program: Lexipedia 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create a web of connected/related words. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: The program is very easy to operate. I especially like how when you hover the mouse over the other related words, the definition appears.

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1. Name of the Program: Museum Box 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create a 3 dimensional cube to collect information in various formats. 4. Ease of Use: poor/good 5. Your reaction to the program: The program has the potential to be a very easy and useful tool for gathering small pieces of information. However, I and many others were not able to upload videos to the cubes.

1. Name of the Program: MyPicsMap 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create a map with pictures. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This would be a good way to take a virtual field trip. This could be used to study how music traveld throughout Europe and then to the USA through pictures of important music centers.

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1. Name of the Program: Picture Book Maker 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create a digital children's story book. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: You are limited to the pictures/format given. This would be a fun activity for kids to do at home or for creative writing.

1. Name of the Program: RoohIt 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create digital notes from websites. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I could see this as a solution for students just "copy-paste" from the internet. However, it seems a little complicated for their use. This would probably be better for higher ed. students collecting information for complex research papers.

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1. Name of the Program: indulge 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create "random" music. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This program is very easy to create original music. You cannot create sophisticated music like one might do with Garage Band, but certainly really FUN.

1. Name of the Program: Vorbeo 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To create simple, online polls. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This was very easy to operate. I like that the results are not given until after you have voted (however, it comes up in a new window). Check out the poll I created on the home page of my Wiki.

1. Name of the Program: Story Cove 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To view/listen to multicultural stories. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This site would be great for elementary school. I could also see it being combined with a unit on multicultural music or music that has a moral.

1. Name of the Program: Dirpy 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: To extract and download the audio file from a YouTube video. 4. Ease of Use: good/excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I like that YouTube video urls can be copied into the program or you can search YouTube right on the site. This can be used when you simply need music; however, I would prefer to use a copy of full performance with video (but would be great if the video has questionable images).