Sonic Pics

Features:

  • Intuitive user interface.
  • Automatically synchronizes your images to your audio recording.
  • Make .m4v movies of your images and narrations from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
  • Record up to 60 minutes per session!
  • Choose from good, better or best quality levels for audio.
  • Easy image selection and editing.
  • Give images unique names and descriptions that can optionally be shown during recording.
  • Image names become chapter markers in exported recordings.
  • Pause while recording.
  • Build slide shows with photos from photo albums, camera roll or built in camera.
  • Quickly jump to any image during a recording using the pop-up image chooser.
  • Recordings processed right on your phone, no 3rd party service required!
  • Transfer movies to your computer via WiFi web sharing (requires WiFi connection).
  • Upload movies to YouTube.
  • Chose to make your YouTube movies private.
  • Share your movie’s YouTube link via email.

Sample uses

  • Class field trip
  • New baby
  • Lecture recording
  • Creating mini-presentations on the road
  • Out with friends
  • Travel Logs
  • Conference notes
  • Honeymoon
  • Museum tours
  • Create Audio books
  • Lab notes
  • Insurance claims
  • Accident documentation
  • Medical diagnosis / dictation
  • Land surveys
  • Real estate tours
  • Home shopping
  • New town experiences
  • Staff introductions
  • Photo tours
  • Language instruction
  • Helping boyfriend study names/faces before meeting girlfriend’s family.

Original resource from:
Creating Digital Storybooks on the Fly with Sonic Pics — Living in the 4th Screen

Technology and learning disconnect — from NITLE by Rebecca Davis

“So what is it that I, these isolated faculty members, and indeed the rest of NITLE believe about technology for teaching and learning?  Technology can be most powerful when used to expand the classroom, by linking students to the world, or to break down the barriers keeping learning inside the classroom, by encouraging students to think and learn in the field.  Like AAC&U we believe in integrative learning, a linking between individual courses, and between courses and the extracurricular world.  We believe that technology can facilitate that integration and encourage reflection on it, e.g., when a student blogs a discovery outside of class that is relevant to the topic being studied or reflects on a portfolio of work that represents what they have learned across four years of college.  As strong believers in liberal arts colleges, we privilege face to face time for the interaction it allows between students, faculty, and other students.  Rather than hiding behind a PowerPoint presentation, faculty should collaborate with students and encourage them to work with each other to develop their own learning.  Outside of the classroom, technologies should continue that collaborative learning and cultivate a desire to learn everywhere, not just when in class.”

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