Happy Friday to you! March 30

Please have self control and stay off of MEEZ, ehheehheheheehhe - complete the assignments below - have fun!


BEFORE LUNCH

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

Create a Signature: Use My Live Signature to create a graphical version of your signature you can use on your site or on any electronic document. Once you get to the site, select the link for: Using the signature creation wizard. Take a screen shot of your finished signature! and place it into a blog post.



Share new sites in separate blog posts.  Include links/screen shots, etc.


AFTER LUNCH

Playing games can be a good way for you to study and remember vocabulary words, mathematics facts, and basic trivia-type information. There are hundreds of websites that host game creation tools. Listed below are four free resources for building your own free games.

ClassTools.net is a free service you can use to create your own educational games. Games made on ClassTools.net can be shared via email or embedded into a blog or website. ClassTools.net provides fifteen easy to use templates including an arcade game generator, twister, lights out and others.

Study Stack is one of the better review game creation tools. Study Stack allows you to create flashcards, crossword puzzles, matching games, word searches, and other classic study games for any subject area. Once your data is in your account, you can use that data to create multiple games. All of these games can be shared via email or embedded into your blog or website.

Sharendipity makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. Sharendipity's drag and drop creation tools can be used to create a game in as few as four steps. For new users, the tutorials provide clear directions and helpful game ideas. Games created on Sharendipity can be embedded in your blog or website.

ProProfs Brain Games allows you to build interactive crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word searches, hangman games, and sliding puzzle games. The games you create can be embedded into your blog or shared via email, Twitter, or Facebook.

Activity #1: Search those book bags for a study guide, list of vocabulary words, etc. Using ClassTools.net, create a game for study purposes. Explore some of the templates given and choose one or more! (Embed your "game" in a blog post.)

Activity #2: Explore one of the other sites listed and create an additional game to be used to study content from any of your classes. If you know of another site, feel free to use it instead. (Embed your finished "game" in a blog post.)

Wednesday, March 28

Today we will explore:

• Google Play - a new Google feature.
• Flowers2mail
• Search-Cube
• Additional word cloud sites

See posts below of each tool.

Google Play

Google Play: the entertainment you love, anywhere you go.

Now your favorite music, books, movies, apps, and games are all in one place that's accessible from the Web and any Android device. Discover, buy and share like never before

Search-Cube

search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images.

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.

Word Clouds

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.

Read article on ways to utilize a word cloud:  Click Here 


WORD CLOUD WEBSITES WE WILL VISIT/EXPLORE

Wordle

Tagul

Tagexdo

TagCrowd

ToCloud

Textorizer

Text Tag Cloud

Worditout

ABCya Word Clouds

March 26

Before lunch - Talking email message - Monk Email - refer to previous post! Add a link to your Monk-Email - (do not embed it)

Send a Monk - email to someone - a parent, friend, grandparent, teacher, etc.

After lunch:  cbox!  Click here to go to the Cbox post.

March 12 and 14 - Talking Messages, Email and Photos

Explore Oddcast today - and on Wednesday I will demonstrate the others! HAVE FUN!!!!!

Today you will create and share:

• See alternatives to just sending a text email - you will create talking messages.
• Turn photographs into talking messages.
• Email a talking message to a teacher, friend or family member
• HAVE FUN!!!!

Talking Email Messages

You will take your picture on Photobooth -  DO NOT SMILE with your teeth showing. It works better with no teeth showing.  Use the computer in the middle room to take this picture.

• Oddcast Widgets - various talking messages! Have FUN!  Geico, E-trade

Mrs. Picking and Mike Rowe

• E - trade talking baby - on the oddcast 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.

Turn the Tub Around - FUN!!! place photos on couple dancing!

• 

• Career Builder Monk-e-mail - on this website you can send an email message that is a talking monkey.

• JibJab - send funny ecards! Make videos
• Clicke here to see an example of one I made for Halloween!

Blabberize
Upload a picture of yourself - here is an example of one we made last Friday!

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Create an E-Trade Talking Image - paste the link into a post.  Call the post E-Trade Talking Baby - explain the tool as well - explore making one with your own voice.
2. Create a talking monkey email - post it on your blog - or provide the link.  Try embedding it first.  If it slows down your blog loading - just put the link.  Email one to a friend, etc.  Create a post called Monk-Email - create and share!
3. Explore oddcast - create and post - describe the website, etc.

Monday, March 12

Before lunch - your goal is to summarize Comic Strip Generators!

Create a post evaluating the comic strip websites you have explored.  Share with your readers positive insights to these comic strips generators.  Which ones would you recommend? Not recommend, etc.  Display examples of your comic strips that you have created (or create a new one) on the comic strips websites. If you only explored two sites, that is not enough.  You should have explored all of so that you can identify which you prefer - which sites have the best features, which are user friendly, do you have to create an account?  Be very specific.

After lunch - Meez - for 15 minutes (or explore sites that we have already gone over or finish your Comic Strip post) - until 12:15 - please be back onto the class blog by 12:16.

We are moving on to talking email messages and pictures at 12:17.

BitStrips Class

Our class on BitStrips! FUN!!!!

March 8

First we will take a look at flag counter!  Click link below for an example.

http://www.puppyfind.com/redirect/?acct_id=1701&list_id=870quqbvr0

Add a flag counter to the bottom of your blog!

Then we will scroll down to the previous post and look at bitstrips!

March 8

We will again explore online comic strip generators.


We will begin with Bitstrips.





I created an account already for us.  Thirty day trial.


Click here to login into Bitstrips.  I will give you your login information.

Bitstrips for Schools Student Login Instructions

Step 1 Login

Step 2  Under Student Login on the left, enter the following classroom code: 2012AHS and click on the Go button

Step 3  Select your name from the name box. If this is the first time you are logging in, create your password and click Set Password.

If you have logged in before, enter the password you made on your first login and click Login

Tuesday - March 6

Comix Website

 the free online comic strip maker!

Create an online comic strip using Comix! You can upload your own images or use images/objects that Comix offers. You can add backgrounds and borders as well.  Save, publish or print your comic strip!  More than three pages can be created.

Becoming Clickable

“Becoming Clickable” refers to increasing the traffic to your website. The more that people interact with your site, the more “clickable” it is. Without question, the majority of bloggers and social network users want to become as clickable as possible.


The best way to “Become Clickable” is to be a great writer, reader, collaborator, critic, and digital citizen! 

Online Comic Strips Creators

There are several online comic strips creator websites which allow users to make a comic strip fairly quick and are easy to use. It is just a matter of clicking which panel you want to use, pick a character or characters, add some objects, select an appropriate background, and type in the texts with their thought balloons. Once you are finished, you can just print your comic strip or published it online. Another benefit using a comic strip maker website is that you can practice in writing a dialogue, or comic strip conversations.

Check out these websites for a fun and create comic strips, share them with the rest of the world or insert them in your blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops.


Kerpoof



xTranormal


Speechable

Comic Master

Comic Master allows you to create your own short graphic novel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PixTon

PixTon easy-to-use click and drag comic creator gives you the power to design every aspect of your character, rotate all of the body parts and even turn it 360 degrees! Make a punchy 3-panel strip or full-length graphic novel.

 

Bitstrips

Bitstrips is a free online toys to create awesome comics: create any character, including you and your friends.

ToonDoo

ToonDoo is a unique way to get creative and expressive with comic strips. One can now create their own comic strips, share them with the rest of the world or insert them in their blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops!

 

Make Beliefs Comix

MakeBeliefsComix.com as a place for you to come to and have fun by creating your own world of comic strips.

 

The Super Hero Squad

You can make your very own comic strips and/or comic books right here and right now! Create your titanic tales using your favorite Super Hero Squad.

 

Strip Generator

Create and enjoy comic strips with fantastic ease. Join the friendly community, making comics has never been this fun.

Witty Comics

Make your own comic strips with three panel scene.

 

 

StripCreator

A website that allows the user to create their own comic strips.

Scratch

To utilize Scratch you will have to create an account and download the software - in order to share your creations!

What Scratch looks like when downloaded!

Game Creator

Cartoon Network Game Creator

KerPoof

Kerpoof Studio

The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. 

What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:

• Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
• Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
• Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
• Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
• Tell a story
• Make a drawing
• Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Check out our What's New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof. Kerpoof doesn't come with a manual or a directory or a map. If we've done our job right, then finding your way to the various nooks and crannies of Kerpoof will be half the fun.

Cbox - Chat for the Social Web

Add a chat box to your blog. 

Get a Cbox and add a new dimension of interaction to your website or blog. Cbox is a unique chat and messaging application that brings the best features of traditional chat to the social web. And the best part – Cbox Basic is completely free.

1. Go to Cbox and create an account.
2. After your account is created you will need to click on the PUBLISH link in the menu bar.
3. Add cbox to your blog.  Copy the code and add it as a gadget on your blog.  I have added mine to our class blog.
4. Click the LOOK AND FEEL on the menu bar to change the color, etc. of your message box.--any changes that you make to your cbox - you do not have to repaste the code.  All changes will automatically update your cbox.
5. Take a look at the OPTIONS, USERS AND ACCESS, MESSAGES on the menu bar to change settings, etc.
6. You must visit three other classmates blogs and leave them a message.  Reply back to messages left on your cbox.

 

Pixton for Fun!

pixton.com is a comic strip and book builder!  There are several formats to choose from.  You can also share it with others.