This morning in one of my classes, my students shared short presentations about reform movements of the 19th century with those of the 20th and 21st centuries. The students had a three minute time limit in which they could present on the topic(s) of their choosing and in a style of their choosing. Most of the students defaulted right to slideshows. But one of my students decided to make a video using Stupeflix. While I did spend some time earlier this year showing kids how to use Animoto, I have not spent any time showing them how to use Stupeflix. My student who choose to use Stupeflix figured it out on her own and shared this video with the class this morning. Although there are a couple of small errors in the video, the video captivated the students in the classroom for two minutes. Next time I give an assignment in which the students can pick their presentation format, I think we'll see more Stupeflix videos.
The following is from an earlier review of Stupeflix.
Stupeflix is a service that allows user to quickly and easily create video montages using their favorite images and audio clips. In many ways Stupeflix reminds me of Animoto, but there are a couple of differences that are worth noting.
Stupeflix allows users to drag and drop their images into the sequence that they would like the images to appear. Adding text to the images is easier in Stupeflix than it is on Animoto. Stupeflix offers only one default soundtrack so you have to upload your own audio clips. That said the advantage of Stupeflix is that you can use more than one audio clip within the same video.
Applications for Education
Stupeflix is a good tool for students to use to create video montages of images. Stupeflix is a good alternative to old-style, boring slideshows. The captioning and editing tools are easy to use which makes Stupeflix a tool that most students above age 10 could use.
Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Photo Peach - Quick and Easy Audio Slideshows
Animoto for Education - The End of Boring Slideshows
Animoto vs. Photostory 3 - Side by Side Comparison
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Stupeflix Wows the Crowd
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Thanks a lot Mr Byrne for this nice post! I'm glad Stupeflix was useful and can help fostering creativity in the classroom. We'll make sure it stays this way.
Animoto lets you drag and drop your photos/videos in a set order now, but they didn't always used to let you. There is also a shuffle button to randomize the playback order.
I found this out after my own recent review of Animoto when I wrote a user guide to help people get started with using it. You can find it here:
http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/reviews/57062.aspx
Thanks.
Richard,
There is a slide 25 seconds into the video of a group of students sitting on a wall at Chadron State College. That is where I went. It is a very small school in the northwest corner of Nebraska. How did she find that picture? Crazy!
Beth,
I'm not sure where she found the picture. I'll ask her next week.
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