Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thing 11 - Tagging and del.icio.us
I think that del.icio.us could be very beneficial in libraries. Instead of students becoming frustrated while trying to conduct research by searching various websites, they could access a list of relevant sites through a del.icio.us account.
Thing 8 - Sharing Photos
I explored the different tools, and felt that Picturetrail was the most user-friendly... you just upload your photos, and then you can choose from a wealth of different ways to customize those photos. There were cool borders, backgrounds, graphics, etc. I would definitely recommend the Picturetrail program to others. It was also very easy to select where I wanted the Acrobat Cube posted. You can select many different areas (blogspot, gmail, myspace, etc.) Just enter your username and password for that account and it posts automatically.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Thing 6 - My Trading Card Creation
Thing 6 - My Trading Card Creation
Originally uploaded by jeannemariebaker
I could see my students getting enjoyment out of making their own trading card. I think that this would be a fun activity for Media Specialists to do with students. I wish that there were more capabilities for customization (unless I'm unaware of them). I was hoping to be able to format the font and size of the text, but wasn't able to.
Thing 5 - More Fun with Flickr!
Sisters poster
Originally uploaded by jeannemariebaker
I absolutely LOVE all of the fun stuff you can do with these fun Flickr tools! I could spend hours modifying pictures. These are great ideas for gifts as well! I found out extremely easy to make cool things out of my photos. I made this motivational poster on the site "Big Huge Labs." These tools would be great to use for posters, projects, newsletters, myspace/facebook, etc. I enjoyed exploring the "Big Huge Labs" and "Spell With Flickr" sites best. I felt that they were the most useful and user-friendly.
Thing 3 - RSS
Thing 4 - Trying out the picnik program!
Cami Pigtails
Originally uploaded by jeannemariebaker
Well... I have successfully tried out some of the flickr/picnik program options. I used little Cami as my guinea pig! I like the program. Some of the premium options are cool! But you have to pay for them :(