We all seemed to be having so much fun with Aviary this past week, so I am saddened to report that Aviary will cease support for its suite of tools on September 15, 2012. Aviary has decided to shift its focus to its most popular tool: the photo editor. In this shift, Aviary will now offer its photo editor to developers to include or embed in their apps and/or web pages.
You can continue to play with the whole Aviary suite for the rest of the summer, but don't forget to export/download anything you'd like to keep before September 15th!
It looks like, for the time being, we will have to continue to use Garageband (Mac) or Audacity (PC) for our sound editing. Though they are not "cloud" applications, they are still good tools.
For video editing, again, we have non-cloud tools: iMovie (Mac) or Windows Movie Maker (PC). For simple editing, you might also try out YouTube's editing tools. We each have a YouTube account as part of our Google Apps for Education accounts; you can post videos there make them available only to your students with the privacy settings. You can use YouTube's basic video editor to edit the videos as you post them.
Though I'm disappointed that Aviary has decided to cease support of most of its media editing tools, there are alternatives that offer much of the same (if not more) functionality. We have to remember that the web and the tools/apps/sites available on it are always in a state of flux. Things can change and disappear and we don't have control over them. The silver lining is that, in this constant state of flux, new tools/apps/sites are cropping up every minute. The next great one could happen at any moment--keep your eyes open!
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