PowerPoint

What Not to do in a PowerPoint Presentation - Don McMillianVideos

• Life After Death by PowerPoint - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSPPFYxx3o&feature=related
• How NOT to use PowerPoint - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck

Blogger.com

www.blogger.com - duh

This blog was made with Blogger - how could I overlook it? Free and VERY easy to work with.

Samples:

• http://beachjars.blogspot.com/
• http://axlax.blogspot.com/ 
• http://silvermarinebio.blogspot.com/
• http://ayearinperu.blogspot.com/
  

Ford Fiesta

Today's Mission: Purchase a Car

2011 Ford Fiesta - Lime Squeeze Sedan
Next Financing -got 2.9%
Then Insurance
The car will be in the driveway by Monday.
The color is a bit disturbing, but it is starting to glow on me, hahaha...

Voki.com

www.voki.com

This is an animation program - looks like a baseball card with a talking character. You can create the script several ways - phone, file upload, text. It is kind of weird how the characters follow your mouse with their eyes.

Samples:

Mercedes B-Day

Class Assignment

Xtranormal.com

www.xtranormal.com

This is a free animation site where you can type in the text you want your characters to speak. You can have 1 or 2 characters and choose different attributes. Geico does a commercial using xtranormal.

Sample:
Happy B-Day Nikki

Animoto.com

www.animoto.com

Educators can sign up for a free classroom membership that lasts 6 months and includes 50 students.

Here is my first Animoto attempt, a tribute to my Yearbookers: http://animoto.com/play/jcibecH6uD4K1UN0BF171w

This one is the start of my class project for Dynamic Media & Digital Storytelling: http://animoto.com/play/xpToy25S9LrCbJYPFXrDzA

PageFlakes.com

www.pageflakes.com

My PageFlakes page is not very developed yet. One of the nice things about PageFlakes is that you can copy other "PageCasts" to add to your pages.
http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx?u=38234416

Tagxedo.com

http://www.tagxedo.com/

This site is similar to Wordle, but you can use a silhouette for the image shape.

Here is a yearbook Tagxedo -  http://www.blogger.com/goog_20756458323



Here is a Tagxedo that I created that uses words from Bloom's Taxonomy  http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/dd1a541216c84e71

Wordle.net

www.wordle.net
 
I created a Wordle that pulled words from my Delicious bookmarks http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3209481/Web_2.0

Delicious.com

Check out my bookmarks at the social bookmarking site Delicious.com
http://www.delicious.com/whsharris/

Rubrics

Rubrics for use with all kinds of digital tools
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Rubrics+-+Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Testing 1-2-3

Testing the mobile text connection

Purpose

I'm taking a course and learning lots of new stuff, meeting new people and need a place to compile and share what I've learned. I also need practice using my cell phone to upload to various sites.  Stay tuned...links to come...