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If you take pictures with your smart phone, chances are that weeks go by before you “do” anything with them. I just learned a great way to instantly and automatically back up those photos. As you may know, Google has re-branded Picasa web albums as part of Google+. I don’t do much with Google+ but [...]
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http://pictureofa.net/ “Picture of A….” is a simple collection of pictures. The pictures are high in quality and free to use for educational purposes. They appear to be squeeky-clean and safe for school. Use as a first stop when looking for images to teach with, add to presentations or for students to use in their work. [...]
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I just renewed my free Animoto for Education account for another year. Animoto is a wonderful interactive web tool which makes it easy to create stunning videos set to amazing music. Registering as an educator will allow you access to the “Plus” account, which would usually be a fee based subscription. This account allows you [...]
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Those of you who know me personally or who have been reading this blog for 15 minutes or longer know that I can’t spell to save my life. Having said that, I still get a kick out of things like this. This picture came across twitter, but if you like funny signs that are either [...]
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If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I am a big fan of wordle. I’ve posted about it several times, most recently here. There are other word cloud generators out there, and they all fulfill their own little niche. There is a new one that was recently [...]
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http://www.photofunia.com/ Yet another fun place to embellish your digital pictures. I especially enjoyed the postage stamp and newspaper effect. Site was similar to Image Chef. I liked it because it was easy to use, some effects used two pictures and it was free. I might use caution before using the site with students, some of [...]
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http://bighugelabs.com/ BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos via kwout Looking for something fun to do with your holiday images? Check out Big Huge Labs to do cool tings with your pictures. I just added Big Huge Labs to the list of fun things to do with your class pictures. Look at the other items [...]
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http://www.shapecollage.com/ Use Shape Collage to create fun picture collages. You have several options including a square, circle and a few animal shapes too. The site works quickly, and you can use your own photos or a web address of a public photo album. I added Shape Collage to the “Class Pictures” tab on Tablet Talk [...]
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Here is (yet another) fun way to embellish your digital pictures. I added http://www.tuxpi.com/ to the ‘Class Pictures’ page, and thought the ‘Motivational Poster’ ‘Newscast Picture’ and ‘Speech Bubble Picture’ would be especially fun in the classroom.
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http://metaatem.net/words/ This is a fun one for learning about anything from the alphabet to architecture. You simply type a word and this handy utility will find the letters in different flickr photos to create a banner. The banner can be downloaded or embedded in a class site or blog. (I used a screen capture tool [...]
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