Bitstrips

Visit Bitstrips Here

Bitstrips is an easy to use comic building site. Students of all ages can use this webtool to create a comic cell, strip, or story and then share it with their peers or the world. The possibilities are endless with this simple to use website. You simply click on attributes of a character's build, pick the colors, the background, and add dialogue. It would be a fantastic tool to use with illustrating a scene from a novel, or even to help a student understand a complex theory such as gravity in science. Bitstrips is fun, free, and very useful as a teaching tool.

Activity: Think of a concept from one of your classes (Biology, Math, English, etc.) and use Bitstrips to illustrate and teach that concept!

Thursday

Today we are going to create a virtual flower bouquet and send it to someone special, make an online poll and take an online poll, and finally add a flag counter to our blogs! 

So a random and fun filled day as always!!!!!!!!

I hope you are having  a wonderful week!!!!!!!  Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flag Counter

Flag Counter Website

Add a flag counter to the bottom of your blog!

Flowers 2 Mail

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.

Quibblo

 

Quibblo online quizzes: Take fun quizzes; create quizzes, fun surveys, polls & personality quizzes. Make your own quiz for your blog or Facebook!

A Scored Quiz can have any number of questions with right and wrong answers, like a test. Create a "Scored Quiz" with at least 5 questions about a topic covered in one of your current classes. Post your quiz to your blog!

A Poll has a single opinion question with no right or wrong answer. Create a "Poll" and post this to your blog.

You can also create a story!  A single author story, a group story, or even a chain story where you pass your book to others to write the next chapter of your book - cook huh!!!

Poll Everywhere

Instant Audience Feedback - Poll Everywhere 

Create a poll and have your audience (class) answer it using their cell phones or on their computers.  Results are live!

Word Clouds - Tuesday, April 16

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

Tuesday, April 9

Good morning!  TODAY'S TOPIC:  Photo Editing

Today we are going to explore photo editing websites.  Below you will find various posts showing you various FREE photo editing websites!

Have fun!

piZap

piZap - an online editor and collage maker

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.

Pixlr

Online photo editorPixlr! 

LunaPic

Edit a photo at LunaPic!  With this tool you can crop, cut, add text/borders photos!  As well as add various effects.  Watch various tutorials on how to add text, blend images, create collages, among many others!

PhotoShow

1. 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

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!

PicMonkey

PicMonkey - visit here!

PicMonkey is a free photo editor.

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.

NOT ASSIGNED YET - 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!

It's FRIIIIIIIIIIIIDAY!!!!!!

Today you will create a post over the two websites you explored on Wednesday.   

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST.  Also, Sydney or Morgan, please allow Mrs. Haugh to read this blog post so she knows that you guys are doing today.  Thank you!!!!!!!!!

On Wednesday you explored:

SuperTeacherTools

ClassTools

ASSIGNMENT 1:
Please create a blog post sharing with me and your readers what you found on these sites.  What was your favorite, etc.  Give examples, etc.


THEN EXPLORE MORE WEB TOOLS AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS

http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/#

See what cool tools you can find - look along the left hand side!!!! there are 100's of tools.  Can you find some neat ones?  Spend today playing, exploring webtools found on this page.  Before you leave, summarize what new tools you found.  If for some reason this site is blocked, go to Mrs. James Web Toolbox or Social Media and explore websites on that blog.  HAVE FUN!! There are some really neat tools.  Again, share what you found - what you think others would like to know about.

When you are exploring this website - the tools you must explore and try out must be productive tools,  NOT GAMES!!! find tools that allow you to create or edit something.  Remember as you are exploring and trying out these websites, take screen shots - for examples of your blog post.  See you TUESDAY!!!! Have a wonderful weekend.

Wednesday, April 3

Today you are going to explore the following two websites.  What will you find on them?  Games, random facts, graphic organizers, Fakebook, etc.  HAVE FUN!!!!! exploring - please take screen shots of items.  You  may have to do a post about what you explored/found on Friday.  You will have a substitute on Friday - Mrs. Haugh!!!!

SuperTeacherTools

ClassTools

Stykz - Monday April 1 - HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY

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!

Wednesday, March 27

Hope you are having a wonderful week!!!!!! Hang in there, just one more day!!!

Today you will visit atleast 5 of your classmates blogs and play their game(s).

Leave a comment for each game that you played.

When told to do so, you will create a post about the games that you played and your thoughts, as well as the game(s) that you created - include a link, etc.  

NEW TOPICS

•  Claymation - you will create an avatar 

• Stykz - you will create a frame by frame animation

Claymation

Activity #1: Create a Claymation Avatar to represent yourself in today's post!

Accounting Word Scramble Game » scramble word

Monday, March 25

Welcome back from Spring Break!!!!!


Today's Topics:

• Compare Anything - you will compare to items
• Creating online games
• Claymation - you will create an avatar
• Stykz - you will create a frame by frame animation

You will create a post about each website today that we explore.  We will begin with exploring the Compare Anything website, than creating a hangman game.  I am not for sure how far we will get today.  You will stay with Mrs. James on each website.  Please do not explore a website until directions to move on are given.

Compare Anything

I came across a website where you can key in two items - and it will compare them for you.  I teach  a renting realty unit in Business Law, so I wanted to compare a Lease vs Rent - see my results below!

Let's compare Dog and Cat

Try it out for yourself by clicking here!

I compared rent and lease

Hangman

Social Media Fun hangman game » create hangman

I created this game on proprofs! Have fun

Activity

Explore this website! Create a hangman game to add to your blog.  Create other games as well!

Image Generators - Thursday, March 14

Use image generators to create original pictures

• Image Generator
• Generator Blog
• Generator Land
• Make Sweet

The Lego Character

Picture yourself in plastic. With billions of combinations, there's sure to be something to amuse you.

This would be perfect to use if you have a page about Legos . The possibilities are endless, and the only thing holding you back is your imagination!

Create your own Lego Character

The Newspaper Clipping

Have you ever wanted to add a newspaper clipping to a lens, but haven't been able to find an appropriate one to use?

With the Newspaper Clipping generator, you create the headlines and the story. Very easy to use!

Create your own Newspaper Snippet

The Parental Advisory

With this, you are able to add two words. A nifty little tool that can be used in a pinch.

Customize your own Parental Advisory

The Newspaper Headline

Making the headlines just got a whole lot easier!

With this generator, you enter text to replace the text in the image. Click "Preview" to view the new image. Save it and you're done.

Customize your own Newspaper Headline

The Sticky Note

Write a note and click "Create" to make your own sticky note picture.

Create your own Sticky Note

ASSIGNMENT
Create a post sharing what you created!
 

Warning Sign Generator

Click here to generate your warning sign!

Tuesday, March 12

Today we are going to explore Avatar building websites!

Mrs. James will demonstrate each website, then you will create your own Avatars!

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!

Avatars

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

Build Yourself Wild

Search Cube

The visual and fun way to search the web for images, videos and webpages. Search, spin and view your results on a unique 3D cube interface

Search Cube is a visual search engine that shows search results in the form of a 3D cube. Each side of the cube shows displays 16 different websites each as a small square. Scrolling over each square displays more details about the website on the side of the screen.

You can rotate the square using the direction arrows on your keyboard to display more search results. Clicking on any square then takes you to the website. This unique search engine looks impressive on an interactive whiteboard or projector and it’s guaranteed to generate questions from a curios audience.

I keyed in Social Media.  If you run your cursor over a square - it will give you the website to the right. As you can see! FUN!!!