What is this Instagram that all the celebrities and cool kids are using? Well, it's a free social networking app for all people (even the not so cool ones like me) that lets you share pictures and short 15 second videos. It is available for iOS, Android, and Windows phone. It is similar to Facebook and Twitter. It displays your profile and your feed. People that follow you will see your posts and you will see posts of people you follow as well. Your profile is public when you first create it and then can be set to private where you will be able to approve who follows your posts. You may use the search tab to look for hashtags or specific users. A neat thing about Instagram is that when you capture your photos or video, it allows you to edit. It has 24 filters for photos and 13 for videos. You can edit the brightness, sharpness, add frames, etc. You can also configure your Instagram to posts pictures and videos in your other social networking accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr automatically when you press the "share" button. Instagram would be an efficient tool in the classroom and library to share presentations, ideas, lessons, book reviews, book trailers, and many more neat things.
Vine
Vine is a video sharing app that is owned by Twitter. It must be downloaded to a smart phone either on iOS devices or Android devices. When you sign up, all your Twitter account information transfers over such as your biography, photo, and name. This app allows you to film short, separate instances and then allows you to create a six second video. Each video plays in a continuous loop. You can publish to your Twitter timeline or embed into a web page or blog. Your Vine will look like an animated image (GIF) on your Twitter stream. It has an Explore tab that allows you to search for popular categories. The activity tab allows you to see who follows you, comments, and likes. The interface looks very similar to Instagram showing you a scrollable feed of all your friend's Vines. Some disadvantages of Vine is that you can't save a video to your camera roll for later use. Vine doesn't have social network buttons to be able to share of Facebook or Tumblr like Instagram does. Vine is an easy to use tool and can be used to review book talks, author's visits, presentations, A.R. kick-off parade, and many more recordable moments.
Well done! I love the dino Vine! That's really cool! And what a story prompt!
ReplyDeleteYou did great explaining the features of Instagram. I liked your images for science - a great way to share what kids have learned or even as anticipation images for upcoming units/projects.
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