Flipbooks

I found this really neat website through one of my other classes:
http://www.flip.com

You can make your own flip book.  Before I checked out the site, my concept of a flip book was a little rectangular booklet with pictures in it that seem to be animated when you flip through it really fast.  These are not those.  They're online scrapbooks, and they're really neat.  I've never had the patience for scrapbooking, but making a flipbook is fun and easy.

You can sign into your photobucket and facebook accounts and access your photos there when you're making a flipbook, so you don't have to bother uploading pictures to a new website- something that can be long and tedious, especially when you have a lot of pictures, which I think most of the young people using flip.com do.

You can browse flipbooks that people have already made here:
http://www.flip.com/flipbooks

Here's one I made:
http://www.flip.com/people/flipbooks/429942

(It lets you embed your flipbooks, but the video automatically starts and there's sound and I don't want someone's speakers to suddenly start singing if they're in the middle of class or something.)

Wanna Mashup?

I saw an ad for the Kids Choice Awards (Nickelodeon) on Comedy Central yesterday afternoon with a video of Jack Black singing "Back in Black." At the end of the commercial, kids were encouraged to log on to Nickelodeon's website and Mashup the video. So I did. In order to save and share it, I had to create a profile (they didn't have a problem with my birthdate making me much older than their target audience). You can either mashup my video (which is really terrible - I actually had a little trouble getting to do what I wanted because it was so basic), or you can create a new one.

There are other mashups available to create as well, which I'm pretty sure Carol directed us to earlier in the semester. I just thought it was an interesting advertising tool to get kids on Nick's site and get them to know when this show would be on. On top of that, they can share their Mashups with all their friends and give Nick plenty more free advertising. Genius!