Thursday, April 30, 2009

Add special effects to your photos


Neat photo editing tool at http://www.lunapic.com/editor/
This photo should be animated (hearts moving), I guess it doesn't work in this format, but does elsewhere.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Find our share documents or slides

Check it out. I found some nice computer handouts but also looked for other school topics. Like Youtube for docs. http://www.scribd.com

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Have you Twittered yet?

I learn something every day from my Twitter friends.
http://twitter.com

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Make an E-book

This is a quick sample creation, but you can browse others at http://www.myebook.com/ Password: letmesee You can add text, images, audio and video! Similiar to Glogster, but in book form, just flip through the pages.
Myebook - Sample - click here to open my ebook

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Blogger for Blogging

Blogger is the site you're currently on. What is a blog? Check out this YouTube video http://tinyurl.com/36wjyo. Post all types of information and interact with others through "comment." Make it public or private. Blogger is a Google application, but there are many others out there as well.

Personal Learning Networks - Professional Development

Check out this video on YouTube with Will Richardson, a guru in the educational world of technology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghGV37TeK8

See the March 19th post on Twitter, a great place to develop your PLN.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Ellis Island and Life in America

Ellis Island in 1916. What's life like? http://www.tenement.org/immigrate/

iCue for History Videos

Find lots of video clips from NBC at iCue http://www.icue.com. Take the tour to see all it offers.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Add a frame to your picture


Neat site to add a cute frame to any digital picture and save it. http://myframe.us/


Create-a-Graph

Easy way to create graphs here. All kinds.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Professional Development Screencasts

Check out the calendar at Live Classroom 2.0 to participate in a screencast on a topic of interest.
http://live.classroom20.com/

50 Fabulous Web Tools for Group Projects

Want to explore on your own? Find tools for management, communication, collaboration, sharing and organizing here, many of which I have listed in this blog.
tiny.cc/RwFW1

Great resource for Web 2.0 here

21st Century Information Fluency
http://21cif.com/rkit/newRkit/Web2.html

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Tiny URL

Ever have a url to share thats really long? Go to http://tinyurl.com/ and it will make it tiny.

Del.icio.us - Social Bookmarking

Use del.icio.us to help you organize your favorite sites as well as share them with others. Plus you can find popular sites similiar to those you've found. http://delicious.com/

Read, Write, Think - Essay map

Read, Write, Think has many interactive tools like this Essay Map. http://tinyurl.com/4jpvk6 Main list here:

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Myths and Legends

A place to create a story here. Haven't quite figured out how to save and view it. http://myths.e2bn.org/create/