Wednesday, December 8

Sarah - Google Earth

Explore:  Kerpoof

Explore Mrs. James Web Tools

Create a post over Kerpoof and over two tools from Mrs. James webtools.

Find a web tool that we have not gone over and make a post on our Favorite Web Tools site that you are the contributor for.

Monday, December 6

Today we will explore Notaland and Glogster

Nota is casual collaboration.

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki.  Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and collaborate with others on a project (chat with up to 50 people at a time).




Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.


http://notaland.com/




This is an AWESOME website!!!! You can add your own pictures, text - collaborate with others.  LOVE---LOVE THIS TOOL!!

GLOGSTER

Glogster  - Interactive Poster for you to express your creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills



Click here to visit my Business Law - Glog

Two versions:  Glogster EDU and Glogster
Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video.  Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself.
 
Text

Tell the others what you think about yourself, about love, friends, school or about the world. Simply write what you have in your mind! Just choose the design you like and write a poem, joke, greeting, a  letter or create a presentation.

Images

Don’t forget to add images! Choose the best of your own pictures or the pics you got from the Internet. Cool celebrities, cartoons, characters, glitters or art. Just add them to your Glog and make it fancy.

Music

Words and pictures isn’t enough? Pump it up with some audio! Show the others what kind of music you are into. Pop, rock, hiphop, electronic, jazz or techno. Just upload your favorite mp3 or listen to the music on other Glogs.

Video

Have your own video? Watch your favorite band’s clips every day? Upload it to your Glog. It is easy: you can use videos from your fav video sites. Make your Glog rock and add a video or even a movie.

Thursday, December 2

Briefly discuss Tinychat and Google talk  - we will demonstrate this.


Today we are going to draw, create and doodle!


Today we will explore:  Imagination Cubed, Doodletoo, and Comix!

Imagination Cubed - click here!

This collaborative drawing tool provides different brushes, stamps, and other features. Invite others by email to participate in your artwork.  

With Imagination Cubed you can email a friend to have them draw with you! FUN!!!! And chat at the same time.  You can create a design and email the design to a friend.  Once your drawing is complete click replay and it will "replay" your drawing!

COMIX http://avenscorner.com/flashgames/comic/comic.html


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.

Doodletoo

http://doodletoo.com/#/lobby

What is DoodleToo about?

Doodletoo.com is an online drawing tool and chat room in one. Enter one of their rooms and draw your messages, ideas, moods, express yourself or post pictures to share with others! Everyone sees your pen and can join you, help you, challenge you or maybe become your friend. The whole world can now see your paintings as they are being created. It's a lot of fun – check for yourself! Register your nickname, choose your default color, start drawing and enjoy yourself! Welcome Doodler!

DoodleToo is a simple chat website :-). Every time you’re drawing you can press ENTER or click "Say it" and enter any message you want to share with the others. Continue drawing with your message appearing at the top of your pen. Click "Snap it" and you’ll get a screenshot! Save it, send it or post it to Facebook for all your friends to see.

DoodleToo on my website

Room Embed API

DoodleToo on your website? It’s easy! Use our DoodleToo Room Embed API and get fully customizable rooms for your website, brand, chat or your private social platform. Our API will use your DoodleToo nickname automatically.

Check out Firefox add-on's - see what's new!  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/



Please get 10 pictures on your computer by Wednesday.

Thursday, December 2

Try tinychat on Mrs. James website:  http://tinychat.com/dawnjames
---Take a screen shot

Try Google Talk (Video) - make sure you are on Safari, or it will not work.
--To do this, log on to your gmail account.  On the left hand corner--you will go into the middle room.
--Take a screen shot to verify that you and your partner did this.  --you will go into the middle room.
--You will have to invite that person to chat.



Create a post on on your blog about Tinychat and Google Talk - post your screen shots - discuss your thoughts on video chat - what is the difference between the two - or how you or someone could utilize these two video chatting features..

Try and record on your gabcast account
--you will first need to create a channel to get the channel number and create password to enter when you record your message --you can utilize the laptop.

Create a voxopop account.
 --Mrs. James created a Talkgroup account

Tuesday, November 30

Today you will:

• Create a voice message utilizing several podcasting websites!

Assignments/Tasks! 
Create a Vocaroo message and embed it onto your blog - in a post or as a gadget!

While there is down town - change your meez, blog background, visit  http://www.go2web20.net/ and explore websites!!!! - HAVE FUN!!! Share what you find by adding a post to our web tools blog!

Add a message utilizing Vocaroo to your blog as a gadget!

Create a gabcast account
--Create a message using your phone. --this can be done in the classroom.

Wednesday, November 24

Google Tools Presenters:
 
Bailey - Reader and Jennifer - Sites
Ryan - Chrome, Shayna - Docs

Visit Newseum 

Go2Web20 Tools 

Assignment:  
Go to 3b's blogs and take atleast 4 surveys! 


Thanksgiving Fun - on Mrs. James Web Tools - CLICK HERE!!!

Monday, November 22

Google Tools Presentation Dates: 

Monday - November 22:  Jessica - Picasa and Emily Riley - Maps

Wednesday - November 24:  Bailey - Reader and Jennifer - Sites

Tuesday, November 30:  Ryan - Chrome, Shayna - Docs, and Cameron - Realtime (you may be going on Wednesday, so be ready)

Assignment

• Create a survey on your blog.
• 5 Questions - we will review how to make a survey.
• --questions must deal with technology/web tools/social networking, etc. 
• Go to 10 of your classmates blogs and take their survey.

 
NEW TOOL TINY CHAT