Look Who’s Talking

Written by: Danielle Abernethy
Friday, November 7th, 2008

Georgia is one of three states that earned an A on their technology report card, and after attending some of the great sessions here at GAETC, I can see why! The last session I attended yesterday was by Tony Vincent (who’s not from GA, but definitely an “A” presenter). His “Ten Tools For Teachers” was fun and engaging. I was itching to get back to the hotel to play with one of the tools he showcased, Gizmoz.

I finally got to it this morning. Gizmoz is a tool that lets you animate yourself, or other images. I decided to do a Famous Person Search in netTrekker d.i. for famous males from the 18th Century, that were politicians and American. My results had 127 people and so I selected the most famous, George Washington. I used a Weekly Reader resource to learn more about our first president and then wrote a simple “who am I” type script. I found an image that used as much of Washington’s face in our image search and then headed over to Gizmoz. I loaded the image, added my text, selected a background, and then rendered the video by clicking save. Click here to see my example.

Give Gizmoz a try and let us know how you’re using it!

Danielle Abernethy
Customer Relationship and Training Specialist

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Friday, November 7th, 2008 Conferences, PLN, Training

4 Comments to Look Who’s Talking

This was so cool! What a fun way to make learning or research fun and interactive!

K on November 11th, 2008

This was super cool! Nice to see ideas on how to use Nettrekker more. My school is using Nettrekker, but noone knew where to start or what to do with it beyond research. Looking forward to learning more ideas on how to use it.

Cynthia on November 11th, 2008

I’ve seen this tool before and it’s really cool. It’s like a Voki and the only issue I have with a Voki is that it only records 1 min at a time. How long can you record on the Gizmoz?