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eZedia

eZedia is an authoring program that allows the user to create portfolios, presentations, slide shows, interactive CD-ROM's, travel journals, and digital photo albums. This program allows the user to develop and share multimedia projects on Windows or Mac OS platforms.

	http://www.ezedia.com/education/

eZedia Extended Activity

Create a class play based on a software product. Using iron-on transfers, print each child's illustration on white t-shirts. With the teacher as narrator, ask the children to play the parts of the characters in the software program. Videotape the play for the children and family members to review later.

eZedia Curriculm Activities

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System requirements for eZedia

	http://www.jmadden.info/eZedia.htm

Other Resources for Authoring Software

	http://www.getreadytoread.org
	http://www.ala.org/ala/plo/arentspage/10wayskidsconnect.htm
	http://www.scholastic.com
	http://www.gedpractice.com
	http://www.keynews.org
	http://www.tv411.org/index.shtml
	http://a4esl.org
	http://www.sesameworkshop.org/talkreadwrite
	http://www.vluonline.org

Conclusion

After becoming more familiar with authoring programs, children's drawings and artwork can be animated, individual children's voices can be included (e.g. a children describing their drawings) and digital movies from the classroom can be merged into the program. Once these meaningful stories are created, they can be burned to a CD-ROM or DVD to allow children to revisit or share with classrooms and families. Authoring programs will encourage children to explore their own potential and the open-endedness will allow children to be limited only by imagination and equipment constraints.

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