English and History Teachers be Advised:

For a while now, teachers have been creating animoto videos and sharing them for aesthetic improvements on a unit-by unit basis. Brady from Shmoop emailed me today with a time saver though. Here is his email:
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Check out the new photo slide shows that we quietly launched a few days ago. Now, all of our US History and Civics guides, and about 70 of our Literature guides, have a nice photo slide show to go along with them.

Here is the link!

Along with the slide show, we have a Widget that enables teachers to embed a mini version of the slide show right on their own classroom web page or blog (embed just as you do with YouTube videos).

I think this is a pretty cool new feature and one that a lot of teachers and students will enjoy. If you have any feedback or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you.

Brady

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Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com

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What’s great about this is that it can be embedded! To embed these little jewels, just grab the Embed code from the site (look for the photos tab in the section you’re covering), and paste it into the html (<> button) field in firefox. If you do it right, it will look like this: