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In response to Lina Valery's 

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My mission over the last few weeks has been to continue searching for free, easy to use tools, which can assist homeschool parents and children in creating digital stories. Another one of these great Web 2.0 tools that I’ve been able to successfully incorporate onto the Action Research library of work is www.masher.com.

To begin working on the masher.com site, all that is required for a new user to begin making movies, is creating a login. There is nothing to download and users can even select from a variety of videos, already available from the masher library. Once a project is completed, the user can then take the embedded code, straight from the masher site and place the newly created video on a blog, email, social network, or their own personal website.

The library of media already available in masher is pretty extensive. The audio tracks, text, skins, videos, and effects they provide make creating a media project simple enough for a younger student to do on their own. Simple drag and drop features and one click video “mashing” make this tool a good resource for presentations. So, a student can focus the majority of time and effort on the actual project topic, research, content, and message; rather than spending a lot of time learning new software that commonly has an existing learning curve.

The video below was completed using masher.com. So, if you enjoy the following movie, just log in take your own quick tour of masher’s features, and simple begin mashing a video of your own.

If you are interested in more information, the above blog entry has an introductory video of the masher site.

Comment by: Taylor-Roman Saray

Hi Lina,

I really enjoyed watching your video and learning more about MASHER. It seems like a great educational tool. I really like the fact that there is no need to download anything. I was also drawn to its user-friendly interface that you showed in your 1 minute video of why you chose MASHER as the Best Web 2.0 tool.

I look forward to playing with it once I have a chance. Hopefully, this too will be a tool that I can apply to my Spanish courses.