PhotoShow

PhotoShow: With this site, you can turn your photos into a dazzling PhotoShow! It's fast, fun, and FREE! You will have to sign up in order to save your photoshow. First, you will need a few pictures so you might want to visit ImageZone. Begin, by clicking the "Get Started Now" button. Then add your pictures and click upload. Next, view your slideshow and have fun trying different styles. You can also add captions, bubbles, stickers, borders, etc. These are really cool! The last step is to share your photoshow with a friend. You can email your show to me at: djames@abileneschools.org

PicMonkey

PicMonkey - visit here!

PicMonkey is a free photo editor.

pixlr

Online photo editorPixlr!

Talking Monkey Email Message

Click here to create a talking Monkey email message!

Flowers2mail

Send that special someone a bouquet of flowers for a special holiday - or for some other special occasion.

Create a bouquet of flowers!  Click here! and send it to someone special.

Happy Monday to YOU!!!!!! APRIL 7

Last week you explored:

piZap
Bloggif
PhotoFunia
FotoFlexer

As you explored and had fun on these sites, you were suppose to compile examples of what you created from each of these sites!  Now its time to SHARE!!!

You need to create different blog posts. OR you may put them in one as long as it is nicely organized.

1.  Summarize the tool/website in detail - what can a person create on this site?
2.  Website
3.  2-3 examples of items you created
4.  Explain the pictures you created, what did you do to it?  It may be neat if you share the original pictures as well.

You may have to go reexplore these sites to refresh your memory.

Next!

Explore :  http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com

When you get to the website, there are a list of web tools in ABC order along the left hand side (in the blue box).  EXPLORE!  On Wednesday you will share what you found! DO NOT JUST STAY ON ONE! -

IF THE WEBSITE IS BLOCKED EXPLORE My other blogs - listed above.  Explore tools we have not gone over - create a blog post of what you found.

Thursday, April 3

Today we are going to explore more photo editing websites:

PhotoFunia
FotoFlexer


We will first look at PhotoFunia!

Remember to create a Post about each photo tool - evaluating - explaining what each does.  Examples of what you created on that site, link to site.

These will be due Next Wednesday.

PhotoFunia

Tools

What is PhotoFunia?
PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun-filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. The technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let's you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages.

PhotoFunia is free and very easy to use. Just select an effect you like from over 100 different effects, upload your photo, and PhotoFunia will handle the  rest for you. PhotoFunia was officially launched in August of 2007.

Activity #1: Select 2-3 photos and experiment with the different effects that PhotoFunia offers. Save each of your pictures to be posted on your blog!

FotoFlexer

Online image editor - FotoFlexer  is a powerful online photo editor! It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.

Tuesday, April 1

Finish the following blog posts:
Include - example, link and description for each.  You can have one or more example if you would like.

WORDLE
TAGUL

Today you will explore: 

Bloggif and piZap. See posts below.

Our focus today will be exploring these to websites. You need to download or paste the HTML into a blog post - on Thursday - you will summarize each tool in two separate blog posts.  Make as many creations as you would like.

BlogGif

This website allows you to create a photo collage, animate text, apply effects to photos, create animated GIFs,  to name only a few!  Click here to start creating!

piZap

piZap - an online editor and collage maker

Tagul Fun!

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

I Look Both Ways

My Secure Cyberspace

Enough is Enough

WiredSafety.org

GetNetWise.org

Web Wise Kids

Net Family News

Common Sense Media

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

NetSmartz

SafeKids.com

Internet Industry Association

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

Wordle

Tagul

Tagxedo

TagCrowd

Textorizer - made on

ToCloud

Textorizer

Text Tag Cloud

Worditout

ABCya Word Clouds

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!

HOT bliggity

Shabby Blogs

Simply Blog It Backgrounds

Dotty Dot Dot

Jelly Pages

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.

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.

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

Frame-based Animating Done Right

HELP

• 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!

1Password for Mac!

Vist website here!

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.