audio - movie maker tools
Voicethread
Voicethread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos and allows people to navigate and leave comments in 5 ways- using voice, text, audio file or video. You can share a VoiceThread with your partners for them to record comments too. With Voicethread group conversations/presentations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install and with the choice to embed it and receive comments on other websites and export it as well to MP3 players or DVD’s to play as archival movies.
In eTwinning, Voicethread can be used in different ways e.g. partners can narrate their common story in their language, upload photos and comment on them etc.
Useful links:
http://voicethread.com/
You can see an example here:
http://voicethread.com/#u278580.b927742
http://givebreathtoearth.blogspot.com/2009/04/skycity.html
Dvolver
Dvolver is a nice, free and easy application that helps you create your own movies within seconds! You just have to follow some simple tools and your movie is ready to share it with your friends or embed it to your website or blog. Why don’t you ask your partners to create a movie that have different parts? You can start with the part 1 of your movie, upload it to your common website and ask from your partners to direct the part 2. You can continue in that way until your movie is completed!!!
Useful links:
http://dvolver.com/live/home.html
Here is an example: http://givebreathtoearth.blogspot.com/2009_04_06_archive.html
The Gong Project
In addition, there are some powerful features such as personal messaging, support for multiple languages, styled text editing, voice editing, voice speed up/slow down etc.