21st Century Digital Learning

Photo Story 3 is a great free software to teach kids how to create a digital story and make it into a enhanced podcast. Some of my former 4th grade students were selected by their writing teacher to join my after school tech club. These students came to the tech club with their completed written essays and I taught them how to use Photo Story 3 to make their essays come alive! Once they published their PhotoStory 3 project as a windows media video file, I converted their wmv files to mp4 files using a free software tool called Jodix iPod Converter. It can be downloaded at the following link:http://www.download.com/Free-iPod-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10498771.htmlClick on the Jodix Ipod Converter icon below to view a short tutorial that I created on how easy it is to convert a wmv file to a mp4 file using Jodix Ipod Converter Software.The following enhanced podcast was created by one of my former 4th grade students using Photo Story 3 and converted to mp4 format using Jodix Ipod Converter to make his narrative essay entitled "Best Day of My Life" come to life!You can now upload and embed videos to Blogger using draft.blogger.com However, the feedwill not pick up embedded videos to iTunes. This is example of uploaded and embeded video using draft.blogger.com. It is still in Beta stage.

You can use Windows Movie Maker to create, edit, and produce a movie. Once you create your movie, then you can convert the wmv file to a mp4 using Jodix Ipod Converter to make it into a vodcast.Click on the movie reel to view a Windows Movie Maker tutorial from Microsoft.