This class focuses on exploring, evaluating and learning how to use the latest tools and applications on the Internet. Students will explore their interests and build an online portfolio (blog) to demonstrate what they can do using innovative web based tools. Some of the tools and applications may include: Marketing and Business, Professional Networking, Virtual Environments, Bookmarking, Social Networks, Multimedia, Photos and Digital Images, Employment and Jobs, Collaboration, Video-Sharing Sites, Podcasts, Wikis, Blogs, Content Aggregation and Management, Organization, Games and Entertainment and more. This course is for anyone who wants to increase their internet skills and knowledge and understand current web tools.


Friday, March 28, 2014

Tagul Fun!

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Wednesday, March 26

Please complete:
  1. Blog post about Wordle
  2. 3b only - a blog post about Tagul (2b do not worry about this, I will go over this site Friday)

You will have today and Friday to complete the following activity:


Stay safe and secure online 

Explore quick tips and how-to’s that explain what you can do to stay safe and secure on the web.  Click here!

Utilize Powtoon and create an information/safety presentation.  Use the information from the above website or from the links below. 

Your audience is high school, middle school or elementary school students - choose one to focus on! 

Focus on a topic, Digital citizenship, cyber bullying, internet safety, safety tips, Internet Survival Tips, be creative, etc., and have fun.  You may make more than one if you choose. 

Place your final Powtoon on your blog.  You should not get done today!!!

Utilize the following websites - or find your own.

List of Resources
Digital Citizenship

Monday, March 24, 2014

Monday - March 24

WHAT ARE WORD CLOUDS?

Created on Wordle
A word cloud is an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.  Word clouds visually represent the frequency or importance of a word in a given text.   As you can see in President Obama's Inauguration speech that someone created a word cloud from.  Example:  President Obama's Inauguration Speech Created from Wordle


Word clouds can be used for educational and fun purposes.  You can place them on your blog, website, social networking site.  You can also print them automatically onto items: a great idea for making custom gifts - printing on T-shirts.   They are a fantastic tool to summarize large documents (reports, speeches, questionnaires, etc), as well as websites.
There are various websites available on the Internet to create word clouds.  Word clouds can be created from sentences, whole documents, web addresses and on some websites even from tables.


WORD CLOUD WEBSITES WE WILL VISIT/EXPLORE





Textorizer - made on
ToCloud




Tuesday, March 11, 2014

free gif maker
free gif maker

Tuesday, March 11

Hello! It is almost Spring Break time!!!!!!! Today we are going to explore PowToon! FUN FUN FUN!!! Please just stay on my blog and wait!

Blog Background

Want to change the background of your blog.  Blogger offers several layouts and backgrounds for your blog, however there are several websites that you can find FREE backgrounds that may fit your personality better.  For instance thecutestblogontheblock has several free backgrounds - especially holiday or season themed backgrounds. It also has banners and buttons, etc. 

Want to change the background of your blog.  Visit any of the following websites!

You can also do your own search for blogger backgrounds.

Have fun changing your blog background to correspond with the holidays!!

Here is one of many websites:  The Cutest Blog on The Block

To change your background, you will add a html gadget.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Blogamation

Do you see the cool eggs dropping down on my blog.  At Blogamation they have several categories to choose from.

Get yours at Blogamation 

Khan Academy

Well-respected and known as the place to go for all learners, Khan Academy masters teaching and animation with videos that lead a student to the unanswered questions.

LooGix

loogix

For simple movements and creative elements of photographs or short film, use Loogix. It’s very basic and not as innovative or interactive but it gets the job done if the goal is to add a fun twist to images.

click here

Powtoon

Powtoon

A free business presentation tool, PowToon helps users create animated presentations with quality graphics. It even has a home dedicated to educators at any level. PowToon touts itself as being as easy to use as Powerpoint and educators seem to think it is.

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/videos

Digital Comic Museum

Digital Comic Museum

is a free resource platform where users can easily download public domain golden age comics without the need to ask or worry about searching the net for them.  These comics are organized into different categories. You can for instance browse collections by last updated or most popular or you can search for comics by name.

All the comics featured in Digital Comic Museum are copyright free and in the public domain. To download and use any comic you will have to register. Opening an account in DCM is also free.

 originally shared on: educatorstechnology.com
My Jeopardy Template

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Tuesday, March 4


Frame-based Animating Done Right
  • Stykz is frame-based, letting you work on individual frames of your animation to make it just right. Onionskins let you see what was in the previous frame so you can make adjustments to your current frame easily. 
  • Stykz is completely free to download and use to create animations that you can show off to others or import into other applications.
  • New frames can be created by clicking on the "Next Frame" button in the Frames palette, or by simply hitting the Enter key... in fact, you can use the Enter key while you're manipulating a figure! It's kind of like taking snapshots of the current frame while you're moving or pivoting segments... this feature makes it very easy to get smooth animation.  Click here to see what animations others have made!
Activity:

  • Create a frame-based animation using Stykz. Be creative! Export your final animation to be posted on your blog!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

1Password for Mac!


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