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Flashcard Machine

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Everyone has probably worked with flashcards at one time or another in his/her life. Imagine creating flashcards that are accessible to you or your students at any time on the web. Traditionally, flashcards are used for vocabulary, historical events, or math times tables. Consider using flashcards to keep ideas or notes for a new book or unit of study–sort of a brainstorming data log. Check out my notes for possible online courses to explore or consider.

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1004100/8s6w

Now it’s time to create your own Flashcard Machine account. Click here.
After you click ‘Register’, Flashcard Machine will send you a verification email.
You must click on the link in that email before you can login to Flashcard Machine.

Remember to record your username/password for later use.

Face Your Manga

17 Aug

Face Your Manga (Note: Having just finished an online course on Web 2.0 Tools, I will be sharing those class resources over the next few months. If you haven’t subscribed to ACE Notebook yet, consider doing so now. Subscribe by email or RSS Posts from the right navigation panel.)

Students always enjoy sharing their school picture with one another, but on the Internet and with school policy, safety concerns are an issue. Instead, consider allowing students to create an avatar to identify themselves anonymously, particularly if you are having students blog or participate in online collaboration. (Students can even paste their avatars into Word documents, to personalize their papers.)

Click on the link above to Face Your Manga. You do not have to have an account to make an avatar, but more choices are available if you register. Select “Start Now” and click on the various options on the right-hand navigation. (Change facial features with the word links and use the icon links to add details and personalization to your avatar.) Once you have created your avatar, select “Save” from the upper right screen and complete the short email/information request. An email will be sent to you with your avatar file.

Click on the link in the email; at the next screen, scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Download Avatar.”

Alternative avatar sites of interest, as resources to explore and/or bookmark, at your convenience.

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Posted by Catherine on August 17, 2011 in Classroom Technology, Computers in the Classroom, Desktop Publishing, Technology Integration, Web 2.0 Tools

Tags: avatars, Face Your Manga

Glogster

10 Aug

: Click on the image for Glogster; Glogster allows the student to experience and engage in 21st Century skills. These interactive posters can be used to demonstrate knowledge of ALL classroom studies–biographies, health reports, English studies, social studies events, and so much more. Students are able to add text, photos, videos, and sounds for the project-based activities.

My teacher-students just finished an online class on the Michael Printz Young Adult award-winning novel, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. As part of the graduate component of the class, teacher-participants were required to create a “glog” to provide background information (anticipatory set) for their student literary circles. Here are a few examples of their work.

To see a few additional Glogs created for educational activities, check out these examples.

Using Glogster is FREE, but to have more options within the program, subscriptions are available. See the complete listing of features on the What is Glogster edu? page.

Now, to get started with your own Glog, select this link to the Glog-Creation Interface, then select “Try Now.”

This screen capture imagine will help you start your first Glog.

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