FINAL - Friday

Add a link to your Internet Safety Project.  Please include a voki in this post - telling your reader to click the link - and  saying a summary of what your project is about.

Please go to your first blog post and review all of the tools that we have gone over this semester.

Write one final post - signing off for the course.  Reflect upon some of the tools - your thoughts on the course - besides adding a social networking element (which will be included in Social Media II next year) what else can I do to make this class better.  Please be honest - honesty is the only way for me to improve.  Thanks so much for taking this new course.  I hope you had fun! and learned that the Internet is not just about Facebook, games and research!

http://voicethread.com/share/1601796/

Click the voicethread link above to submit a comment and voice!  You can do this in the middle room.

Your final post - my final post!!!! Wow - there have been so many!!!! I hope you continue to blog! Create your own personal blog and keep track of all your favorite web tools by utilizing one of your favorite social bookmarking tools.  Share the tools with other teachers, parents, siblings, employers, coworkers and grandparents!!!!

Thanks for taking this course - and please continue to explore the web - there are so many valuable FREE tools out there that will enhance your Internet experience.

FINAL PROJECT

Please watch the following voice thread.  You will need to create an account on Voicethread - which you will add your comments as 3o did on the site below.  Just click on the link and listen and read what 3o said about the class.  You will also need to create an account today.


http://voicethread.com/?#q.b1601796.i8466628


YOU WILL NOT DO YOUR VOICE THREAD TODAY - just create an account.


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Visit 3o's student blogs to see their Internet Safety Projects.


Teaching Online Safety 

Internet safety is one aspect that we did not cover in this course.  It is one of the most important topics that elementary, middle, and high school students need to know about - how can they protect themselves on the Internet.  You will create a presentation using an online tool teaching tips on Interent Safety.

Create an an Internet Safety Presentation.  You may utilize Glogster, Notaland, KerPoof, COMIX, etc.  You will create your presentation on one of these websites - BE CREATIVE!!!!  If you have another idea for sharing/spreading Interent Safety - by all means use it.   If you use notaland you can use multiple pages - have one topic per page for example.  You are creating a simple presentation with pictures, words, you can have links to games, etc on Internet Safety.  But you must have useful information on your project.


I will eventually post these on the main school's webpage.


Choose a focus or just be general presentation - for example Safety on Social Networking or be general - cover topics such as setting passwords, using avatars vs personal picture, using your real name, etc.  Use pictures, wordle, facts, etc.  These may be shared with elementary and middle school students so you can focus your project on that age group or high school age - your choice.  You have today and tomorrow to complete this.  Please put some thought into your project - DO RESEARCH.  You can work with one other person if you are using Notaland, otherwise by yourself.  You could even make a video using the camera in the middle room.  


When you finish your final - you will create a post and add a link to the Internet Safety site.  You will also need to create a voki that introduces your topic (again see 3o's classes if you are confused on what I am talking about).  Copy the code into this post.

Title - catchy

May work with partner or by yourself if using Notaland, but you must stay in your seat.

Utilize various websites - some websites are listed below.

Add- games, etc.  Links.  Worksheets.  Tips

BELOW ARE SOME LINKS YOU CAN UTILIZE, however search for your own as well.  You should not get finished today.  You have another project to complete tomorrow - so really focus on this project.

Interenet Safety - Safe Surfing Tips for Teens

Internet Safety - pdf

Social Networking Sites: Safety Tips for Tweens and Teens

Safety on the Internet

Child Safety - Age Appropriate Tips

SafeKids

Online Safety Education - NetSmartz Safety

http://websafety4kids.pbworks.com/

Please keep track of your sources.  These must be submitted.




ALSO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON VOICETHREAD.COM - PLEASE ADD A PICTURE FOR YOUR PROFILE PICTURE.  YOU WILL DO SOMETHING WITH THESE TOMORROW.

December 14 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

http://voicethread.com/

Create an account on Voice Thread.

Monday, December 13

Today you will:
Add a Like Button on your blog - Facebook.
Send Santa Messages
Play Christmas Games

Thursday, December 9

Photobucket.com

Photobucket is an image hosting, free photo sharing website.

Today we will explore Photobucket and its features.  Create an album and upload it onto our blogs.

Go to photobucket.

Explore homepage - picture windows. 

Click - What's New tab

Create an account 

Flickr.com
webshots.com

Tuesday, December 7

Revisit post from last Friday.

ASSIGNMENT:  Create a post on the Notaland - should have taken a screen shot.  Imagination Cubed - should have taken a screen shot and created a post.  Create a post over Glogster - be sure to include a link to your glog and a screen shot.

New website:  Kerpoof.com

Kerpoof Studio

The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. 

What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:

• Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
• Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
• Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
• Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
• Tell a story
• Make a drawing
• Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Check out our What's New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof. Kerpoof doesn't come with a manual or a directory or a map. If we've done our job right, then finding your way to the various nooks and crannies of Kerpoof will be half the fun.

In addition to being a lot of fun, Kerpoof has many educational uses. Visit our educator page (with ideas and lesson plans for how to use Kerpoof) or read our flyer for educators if you are in a hurry but want to learn more.

Friday, December 3

Today we are going to draw, create and doodle!


Today we will explore:  Nota, Doodletoo, Glogster and Comix!


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.

GLOGSTER

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



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.

the free online comic strip maker!

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

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.

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/

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

ASSIGNMENT(s)

Create a post with your Comic - add a link to Comix and discuss this tool.
Create a Doodletoo Account - and explore - show an example of this tool by taking a screen shot and posting it to your blog.

Please get 10 pictures on your computer by TUESDAY.