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ANIMOTO: How to Create a Video Masterpiece
From Average Joe to Spielberg in Minutes

By Ryan Yee of NerdBoyTV

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Digital photography is booming. Everyone has the capability of taking instant, stunningly beautiful pictures with today's technology. But after you fill an external hard drive with tons of digital photos, what then?

Enter ANIMOTO, a fantastic web application that quickly transforms your photo memories into an amazing and professional video. ANIMOTO was created by techies and film/video producers who wanted a user-friendly program that takes photo images, videoclips, and music and renders them into a video production with the same sophistication of a seasoned director or film editor.

Forget the cheesy transitions that come with many consumer video software on the market—ANIMOTO will definitely make you look like a pro!

In this video tutorial, Ryan Yee of NerdBoyTV shows you how to use ANIMOTO to quickly transform pictures, videoclips, and music into a stunning movie masterpiece in minutes that you could then download, burn to DVD, or share on Facebook.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Ryan Yee is the host of NerdBoyTV, a video podcast focusing on consumer technology that's syndicated on both iTunes and YouTube since 2007. He has over 20 years experience as a trainer, instructional designer, and writer and has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies in California. Not surprisingly, Ryan is also on all social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and YouTube.

Meet The Masters: Interactive Multimedia Art Education

Meet The Masters is an Interactive Multi-Media Art Education Based on the Lives and Works of the Master Artists. Your Homeschool students learn Art by studying the greats: Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Degas, Rembrandt, and MANY, MANY MORE!



Meet The Masters uses a 3-step learning approach:

* Art History - This interactive step contains audio clips of the master artist's themselves, period music, and fun review games with Pierre (our friendly French companion), all designed to capture the attention and imagination of home schooled children.

* Art Technique - Your students will learn to implement the art principles that correspond with the artist they have just been introduced to with the downloadable Art technique packets. These are available within the program in .pdf format for you to print, as needed.

* Art Activity - Your students will then move on to use the techniques and styles of the Masters to create their very own masterpieces using our step-by-step instructions. As they progress through the program, the children develop their own unique artist style and art portfolio! This Group Buy offers something for every artist at every age level -- ALL at Group Buy savings!

VIDEO: How To Make a Where the Wild Things Are Children's Halloween Costume

How To Make a Where the Wild Things Are Children's Halloween Costume on Howcast

How to Occupy Kids When You Are Teaching the Other Ones

By Linda Wooldridge

Creating a school box that contains Lego blocks, crayons and coloring pages is a great way to keep a child occupied, while homeschooling other children. Provide fun activities and assignments for preschool children with tips from a homeschool teacher in this free video on education.

VIDEO: How To Make a Diaper Cake

How To Make a Diaper Cake on Howcast

VIDEO: How To Make a "Pencil" Pencil Holder

By SimpleKidsCrafts.com

This nicely done video demonstrates how to create a "pencil" pencil holder out of a potato chip can.

SIMPLE KIDS CRAFTS: How To Make a "Pencil" Pencil Holder on Howcast

VIDEO: How To Display Your Kid's Artwork

DadLabs demonstrates a great solution for displaying your kid’s artwork in your home. Using curtain rods from Ikea and some cool hanging clamps, you can create a rotating gallery to feature your kiddo’s brilliant art.

How To Display Your Kid's Artwork on Howcast

Office Deport CONTEST: Project Backpack

Here's a great way to keep an artistic kid busy this summer: Office Depot just launched a competition to design a backpack using Sharpie Markers. The winning entry will be produced and sold and there will be $10,000 in prizes.

Customers can enter the contest by creating a design on one of four Office Depot canvas backpacks that can be purchased ($14.99 each; available in blue, pink, olive and green khaki, that will include two free individual Sharpie markers of your choice) from a participating Office Depot store, or by downloading an official contest template from www.myprojectbackpack.com. After designing the backpack using Sharpie markers, participants can upload a photo or scanned image of their backpack to www.myprojectbackpack.com along with their official entry form.

The contest launches June 28th and all entries must be received by September 19, 2009.

How to Decorate with Chalkboard Paint

How to Decorate with Chalkboard Paint | eHow.com: "Chalkboard paint is so fun to decorate with. You can use it in the kitchen for bulletin boards and recipes. Chalkboard paint is perfect for kid's bedrooms and playrooms. And it's even fun for furniture and repurposing thrifting finds.

The most popular color for chalkboard paint is black, but it comes in virtually any color you can think of. Just visit your local paint store and pick out your favorite color, come home and let your imagination guide you!

Here are some ideas to get you started."