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Video Puppet – A Virtual Teaching Tool

Do you teach from PowerPoints? If you answered yes, then this resource may be of interest to you.

Video Puppet takes your existing PowerPoints and converts them to video making it easy to share with your students through a learning management system, however, the best part of Video Puppet is having your notes for each PowerPoint slide become the audio for that particular slide making your completed video appear as if you were talking through the entire video. You can select the audio output type in Video Puppet from a list of options.

A sampling of Video Puppet from a PowerPoint of Lego challenges using Keira’s voice and no music in the background.

https://youtu.be/2J4doC0dRww

To add the narration piece from your PowerPoint to the Video Puppet movie format requires your dialogue to be placed in the “Notes” section for each slide in PPT. To use Notes in PowerPoint, go to: View/Notes. The Notes section appears underneath each slide.

https://youtu.be/RR5Ph3iZ37g
Convert PPT’s to video with your notes used for narrating on each slide.
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Prevent the Summer Math Slide

fog stone

Fog Stone Isle is an online virtual world that helps students achieve a better understanding of math concepts and fluency.
Kids are hands-on learners in FogStone Isle. From building villages to raising plants and animals, 3rd through 7th graders see the math in action and deepening their conceptual understanding.

Fog Stone includes scaffolding, manipulatives, and intelligent tutorials that support and guide children through each topic’s conceptual levels. They return often, adding to their unique world while deepening their understanding.

Help your students or your own children retain what they’ve learned in school and be steps ahead for the upcoming school year. Set up a teacher account for summer school use or a parent account for home use. Accounts are free.