Talking Email Messages - Talking Pictures

Oddcast.com

• Oddcast Widgets - various talking messages! Have FUN!

• E-trade Talking Baby - on this website you can add your own picture and even a picture of your pet will work!  Email the talking message to someone, or embed it onto your webpage, or place it on your social networking page.

Created on E-trade - I created a talking do message.  To see an example of the BabyMail - click here

Virtual Drums

http://virtualdrumming.com/drums/windows/drums-free-drumming.html

Play virtual drums by clicking the corresponding keys.  Choose from various drum sets! Have fun!

Glow Text

Make your blog come alive with glowing text!  Utilize GlowTxt's text generator!

GlowText

CoolText

I created this awesome animated text at Cooltext.com

Friday, Feb. 28

Create a post on three Drawing Tools that you explored!

Today we will explore and create tools where you can build comic strips!

As well as create animated text!


See posts below!

Animated Text - Cool Text

Add animated gif's to any presentation - PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Presentation!!!! or to your blog/website!

cooltext.com

More Drawing Tools

This post was taken from:  educatorstechnology.com

Here is a list of some of the best free drawing tools that can be used very easily and most of the time without even registration or any software download. 

Sketchpad

Sketchpad  is a cool platform that you can use to make awesome drawings using text and a wide range of colours and patterns.

Quickmaps

Quickmaps allows users to draw a quick map. It is very easy to use but it requires a sign up which is completely free.

Tux Paint

This is a free drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It has a user friendly interface, and  fun sound effects. It is available for download for Windows XP, 2000, Vista 7.



Drawing Game Maker

This is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. It lets users draw with many different pens, and put stamps on their drawings. It is available for download for free.



Livebrush

Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics.

10- Chogger

Chogger is simple platform where you can use different tools to  create awesome drawings. It is free and web based.



Colour Lovers

This is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles.



Psyko Paint

Psykopaint is a website where users learn and enjoy painting using a wide variety of tools such as brushes, pencils, and many more. It is so much fun to use.



Kerproof

You have probably already heard about this tool. Kerprof has a section dedicated for users to create and exercise their drawing skill using several tools.

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/ drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation ( cartoon ) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. it requires download.

MONDAY FEB 24 - AGENDGA

Today you will start with making sure you have previous posts complete.  See post below.

You will also explore your blog counters/traffic feeds and summarize your findings in a blog post.  See post below.

You will then move on and explore drawing websites/tools.  Some may be blocked, just skip over those.  See post below

Monday - FEB 24 - Assignment

You need to make sure that you have the following posts complete:

Remember the elements that you must include in each blog post:  Pictures, Samples of creations, website, description, benefits it it applies, or how you or someone can utilize the tool/website.

1.  Name post:  Avatars

2.  Name post:  Google Voice

3.  Name post:  Google Hangouts

4.  Poll Everywhere

Monday, FEB 24 - ASSIGNMENT

Please look at your flagcounter that you added to your blog.  Please create a post - summarizing your visitors - you also need to look at your Blog Stats and at your visitor counter that you added to your blog.  Click your FeedJit link as well - to view those stats.


Name Post:  Visitors to My Blog

Summarize your information in detail.  Include pictures!!! Are all your visitors located in the US?

MONDAY FEB 24 - Drawing Tools

Today you are going to explore free online DRAWING TOOLS!  Remember to take screen shots, create accounts, or download your creations to eventually share!!! 

ABCya

Pencil Madness





One Motion

Sumopaint

Flock Draw
Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.

SketchPad

Queeky
Queeky Paint is an easy to use online drawing application. Create drawing videos and learn from creative artists from all around the world. 

Draw.io

Tessellation Center
Pick a shape, size, colors and tesselate!

Shidonni - bring your drawings to life


Slimber

Slimber.com is an online drawing application.  It allows users to draw online, replay and save their drawings.  Users can rate, comment and share drawings.  The Most Rated drawings are rewarded by being featured on the home page.

Bomomo 
Bomomo is an interesting drawing utility that creates images out of controlled chaos. Users select a drawing utility then the Bomomo program begins randomly drawing. Users can determine where the drawing starts with their computer's mouse. Users can also select general shapes and patterns to be drawn.

Crayola
Crayola's online drawing canvas provides students with a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. Drawings cannot be saved online, but they can be printed. Pre-K Teachers looking for coloring pages can create their own or have students create their own using Crayola's Create & Color tool. Create & Color provides templates for creating custom coloring pages. You can pick a background template and modify it by adding speech bubbles and pictures. Coloring pages cannot be saved online, but they can be printed.

FlamePainter


Coloring 4 All offers free printable coloring pages, online puzzles, and an online drawing board. The online drawing board can be used as a blank slate or children can select a picture to color. If puzzles are what you're after, Coloring 4 All offers customizable online jigsaw puzzles. To use the puzzles just select a picture then select the number of pieces you want the picture divided into. For the webmasters out there, Coloring 4 All makes many of their coloring pages and puzzles available for free re-use.

Draw Island
Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw. Draw Island offers two canvas sizes for creating simple GIF animations. To use Draw Island just head to the site and select a drawing tool. You can draw free hand (or should I say free mouse?) or select pre-defined shapes to use in your images. When you're done drawing just click the save button to download your drawing or animation.

Avatars!

Avatars

It seems that some people try to look good, some don't want to show their face, and some look kind of scary. I'm wondering, how do you choose your profile picture? Were you concerned about who might see you? Did you care?

If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles, you can create a cartoon character of yourself.  It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles.

An avatar is a digital cartoon-like representation of a real person. Thanks to many free web services, you do not have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or perform some mix and match.

You can create avatars to use with your logins in VoiceThread, Google Apps, and other web tools. You can also incorporate your avatar into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.  If you have a wiki, a blog, a website or participate on a Social Networking site, chat, you can create an avatar to represent yourself.  Below you will find a few websites that I have collected where you can create an avatar.

Click on the links below to explore Avatar websites.  You can search for other avatar sites as well.  If you find another avatar site, please make a comment on this post so that Mrs. James can add it to our list.

ASSIGNMENT

Create a post showing the different avatars that you created!  Take a screen shot or download the picture and add it to your post.  You should have several examples.

Add the link to each avatar site on your post.

Describe each website.

  AVATAR WEBSITES - CREATE YOUR OWN!

Portrait Illustration Maker is a service which provides character icons completely free of charge! They are available for your blog site or SNS. If you’d like to save the completed avatar, right-click on the icon. And then select “Save Picture As… ” from the menu.

Portrait Illustrator

DoppelMe 

With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.

 

 DoppelMe

 Build Yourself Wild - Avatars are created using a variety of animal body parts.

Build Yourself Wild

Poll Everywhere

Visit Polleverywhere here!

Today's Question - Poll

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote!

Feb. 13 and 18 - Topics/Assignment

Today's Topics:

• Google Voice
• Identify and explain Google Voice:
• When would I use this?
• How to use this feature?
• How do I set up an account?  
• Must download plugin 
• Google Hangouts
• Create a hangout with classmates 

• Google Chat - one on one chat

ASSIGNMENTS

Create a blog post about each of our topics!

Create a post about Google Tools/Products - must discuss atleast three.  

One post per topic.

Google Hangout

Create a Hangout!

Video chat with out to 9 friends!

 

Google Voice/Tallk

Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones -- a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device or a location. Use Google Voice to simplify the way you use phones, make using voicemail as easy as email, customize your callers' experience, and more.

Google Voice isn't a phone service, but it lets you manage all of your phones. Google Voice works with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines. There's nothing to download, upload, or install, and you don't have to make or take calls using a computer.

 

Google Voice will let you define which phones ring, based on who's calling, and even let you ListenIn^TM on voicemail before answering the call. We use smart technology to route your calls. So, if you're already on a Google Voice call, we'll recognize it and use call waiting to reach you on the phone you're on.

Google Presentation

My Presentation

I created this presentation using Google Presentation on Google Drive.

ASSIGNMENT
Create 5 or more slides on Google Presentation  - topic of choice - again this can just be gibberish - we will have a more organized assignment on Thursday - share it in a post on your blog.  See above for example on what to put.  This is just practice:  Include:  Transitions, Animations, Theme, Video, Picture

February 11

Google's Mission:

 to organize the world's information

Today's Topic - Google Drive

• Spreadsheet
• Presentation
• Google Plus

Google Plus

Google+ is a social networking and identity service that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.  It is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook. 540 million monthly active users are part of the Identity service side, by interacting socially with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and YouTube comments. In October 2013, Google counted 540 million active users, of which 300 million users are active in "the stream".

A Google Plus account is based upon a Googleprofile.  You control which bits of information are visible to the world. You can build a personal bio, share information like your address, phone number and e-mail, and add in links to your personal or professional Web sites. Google lets you decide which audiences can see each section of information. Don't want the whole world to know where you live? You can choose to share that information with select groups of people or keep it private. If you're sensitive about your private information, you can build a Google profile using only your name -- Google doesn't require you to include additional information.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZFayPTN0--2ZkQu9XNQk2VmrxVV0vHXQk7BL8oXJgKU/edit

Google Drive

Google Drive. Keep everything. 

Share anything.

Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just...there. Ready to go, ready to share. 5 GB free.

Google Drive is available for:

• PC and Mac
• iPhone and iPad (coming soon)
• Android devices

Store your files in a safe place.

Things happen. Your phone goes for a swim. Your laptop takes an infinite snooze. No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive

Go beyond storage. Collaborate.

Google Drive lets you do more than just store your files. Share files with exactly who you want and edit them together, from any device.

Google Drive gives you instant access to Google Docs, a suite of editing tools that makes working together better—even when your teammates are miles away.

 


ASSIGNMENT 1

Today you are going to create a Spreadsheet using Google Drive to help you keep track of all of your accounts that you create in this course.

Mrs. James will demonstrate first.  Please wait for directions.

1.  Open Google Drive
2.  Create a new spreadsheet
3.  Key in accounts that you have created
4.  Share your document with your email
5.  Check your gmail for the link of the shared document
6.  Create a link somewhere on your blog so that you can access your account list quickly. (only you will be able to access it, so no worries about others seeing it on your blog)

ASSIGNMENT 2
Share a document!

ASSIGNMENT 3
Create a blog post about Google Drive!

Monday, February 3

Today we will continue to explore Google Products.  Click here for all of Google Products

Last week we explored:  Maps, Bookmarks and Books

Today's Topics:

• News
• Image Search
• Google Play
• Offers
• Panoramio
• Blog Search
• Finance
• Alerts
• Google Shopping
• Scholar
• Trends