Audio Visual Tools not only make learning more fun, but adds to the student engagement by having interactive components and some can be built in a collaborative manner. Providing a combination of Text, Visual and Audio also will help with student retention and appeals to multiple intelligences of learner.
If you have other Audio Visual tools that you have used please list them as links or samples here with your comments and possible uses.


Voice Thread- Create an interactive presentation.
This is a wonderful program allows you to upload an image, video, powerpoint slide or text.
Then you and others can add comments in any of these formats: voice, text, video, phone etc.
You can invite others to comment, choose public or private viewing.
http://voicethread.com/

http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/

Sample -Communication
http://voicethread.com/#q.b249375.i1301986

Sample- international business and culture





Smilebox: Create - E-Cards or presentations
Unlike other solutions that focus on organizing, editing, and sharing photos or sending pre-packaged ecards, the Smilebox service enables users to create something truly powerful by:

1. Choosing from hundreds of unique multimedia designs
2. Easily personalizing them with photos, video, music, words, and style
3. Sharing them via email, blog, or print

This is a free program works with Mac or PC, you will just need an email address.
Check with your teacher on using your school email account if available.
You will also be asked to download the program, this can be deleted when your done if you want.
You can upload your own pictures and customize the messages.
The free version does have advertising, but kind of fun anyway
This is a nice tool for Business students to create event invitations, grand opening for venture plan.
Internet Marketing activities.

http://www.smilebox.com/ecards/

Sample -E-Card for Grand opening of Venture for Entrepreneurship
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4e5459334f5459314e513d3d0d0a


How about adding a quiz to a video?
ESL Video- allows you to take any video and add an interactive quiz to it.
This can be used for Business or any subject area.
http://www.eslvideo.com

Sample: The Future of Work


Niche Marketing



CAPZELS- Interative Timelines
On a recent visit to this great site on Interactive Multimedia Technology I saw this new tool.
It is an interactive time-line- move your mouse over the images as zome in.
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/2008/12/capzles-on-line-beta-interactive.html
Below is a sample of CAPZELS.com - you can use this tool to create time-line of pictures, audio, blog, video etc.

Business Studies students can use this to create time line of Advertising, Business trends, Create a company History, list the steps in a process. etc.