My previous digital story was created through MovieMaker, since my team and I are all PC users. iMovie is probably a better choice and allows you to create a more polished product if compared to MovieMaker movies, in my opinion. So, for my second digital story I decide to skip MovieMaker and search for another software. That was when I finally found out toufee. Toufee is a flash maker website with some serious nice features. not only you can create a digital story, you can use a variety of flash makers for a website, such as banner creator,accordion maker, 3D carousel maker, flip book, among others . The flash builder, which is what I used for my story, it is a very friendly software, if you ever worked with MovieMaker or iMovie, you will probably find it very easy and straight forward. You can add transittions, to pictires and captions, include audio, and edit each picture and caption to the minimal details without completely losing your patience! Therefore, the post was more of a suggestion for you guys, try toufee.
Evidently, there are downsides. First, without becoming a paying member, you can only make a 30 second video. If you decide to pay the basic account, that costs 5 dollars a month, you can create long videos, but you can only publish them on the Toufee website. For the right to upload your video to YouTube, you need to make monthly payments of 8 dollars, and this premium account also allows you to use two other software of your choice. Another issue that I read about, is how you cannot save your project and, if the program crashes, you will lose it. However, I didn't have any problem saving my project and getting back to it later.. Maybe they have fixed the issue, maybe I was lucky. But what I really experienced was their customer service. I sent three emails in three days last week, and I received many, many emails saying that they had received my email and would contact me. Somebody did contact me saying somebody would contact me (!). Fortunately, the issue I had - posting the video to YouTube, was solved, and, after that, I uploaded the video many times without problems. And now i won't stop receiving updates on my inquiry. Actually, it reminds me of another problem, when you publish your project on their website, the audio is perfect, when you do it on YouTube, not so much.... Well, despite the problems I really liked toufee. If you think about it, the only problems are the audio in YouTube, because the limited free edition issue is something any software will have. Or maybe I just have low standards after dealing with Microsoft my whole life. ol But my point is, I would recommend toufee, at least a try using their free version, maybe? The result is satisfactory and look much better than you can achieve with again, MovieMaker, and without the headache.
This is a link for my project, which has a better audio quality than the Youtube video.
Lesson Plan and Rubric
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Hjf1dsr-QYwj5YcYn26jkWXOW8KF7GHhrv3Ynoj0oE/edit
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