New Series of Fantasy Books written by Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely that is becoming popular with teens and those who love Twilight. The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale. Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world, and would blind her if they knew of her Sight. Rule #2: Don’t speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don’t ever attract their attention. But it’s too late. Keenan is the Summer King and has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost! Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working any more, and everything is on the line: her freedom her best friend, Seth her life everything.
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Melissa Marr has sold the Wicked Lovely movie rights to Universal Pictures. No casting news or release date has of yet been announced. It is sure to be a winner with those who love everything fantasy, magic and folklore.
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These videos have become so popular in the last 12 months. Oprah has one and gave them away to her audiences, Whoopi Goldberg and her team on The View uses it. They are easy and simple to use and becoming more and more popular in schools.
All you do to use the Flip is turn it on, start filming (by hitting the red button), and then, you guessed it, hit the red button when you’re done. If you don’t what you have recorded just trash it and start again. No fuss!
To download movies from ‘Flip’ you just flip up the internal USB adaptor, connecting to your computer and literally copying off the video files. On a PC the inbuilt software pops up and away you go! I believe for a Mac special video codec needs to be installed so your Mac understands Flip’s video format. The AVI files can be dropped in to Movie Maker or iMovie, or you can use another bit of Mac software that Flip provides to re-arrange video, and upload to YouTube or AOL Video. You can also take snaps from footage as easy as snap, crackle… pop!
The starting price is around $200 with the cheaper model (Ultra) running on batteries while the more expensive model (Mino) charged via the USB port.
Copes exceptionally well with low light levels
Great for teachers to capture evidence of student achievement
Provides plenty of filming capacity in between downloads to a computer, ideal for excursions or filming around the school
No licensing or networking headaches
Flip Video’s are ideal in the classroom for students to make movies and share content. It is robust, cool and economical.
These great cameras can be purchased from Edsoft and they come in different colours.
Here is a cool tool to make awesome videos from your images. Animoto creates videos in minutes, created by TV and Film producers.
Users need to create an account which is free. Videos of 30 secs are also free. Users can narrate their pictures with text to tell a story the potential is unlimited . Videos can then be emailed or downloaded or posted directly to Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, blogs and more.
Animoto has been around for a while but have recently updated their features.
Here is a 30 sec video created in 15mins. Possiblities are endless.
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I'm enjoying looking at your blog. Last week's information on the Flip video was very interesting and the Librarian's Song was great.
Keep up the good work!
Denise O'Brien
SMS Librarian
Trinity Catholic College
