CLASSTOOLS' FAKEBOOK

Interested in doing an awesome technology project that most of your students will enjoy doing rather than a written report?  Well try Classtools' Fakebook.  It can be found at the following URL:
http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page .  Here you'll find a template that your students will fill in and the result will look amazingly like a Facebook page. 

Use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!  Get started by entering a name at the top of the page. Then proceed to add friends, posts, comments and profile information.  You can save your work and edit it again later.  You can also embed your Fakebook into your blog as I have below.  In my Fakebook I took on the identity of native American artist, R.C. Gorman.  I gave him friends that he communicated with according to what I discovered about him such as his father being a code talker.  So I added Mr. Keith Little as one of his friends.  Mr. Little, by the way, was a real code talker in WWI.  It's easy to upload URLs for websites and even Youtube videos.  This can be the ultimate in "Creative Reports."  If you want to see the original one online without the advertising on the side, go to the following address: http://www.classtools.net/fb/99/TBPPX5 .

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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Create a presentation that would be suitable to show to one of your classes.  It needs to be at least three minutes long if not longer.  You'll be using Fotoflexer if you need to manipulate your photos and then Educreations in order to create the presentation.  Please embed the finished product in your blog.

Larry Hewett

FOTOFLEXER.COM

Ever need a photo editor?  Well here is a great one and it's free and online.  Go to the following website:  http://fotoflexer.com/ .  Find five photos online pertaining to your subject area.  Manipulate all five somehow on fotoflexer.  Save these on the desktop.  Then they will be used in the next assignment in which you create a presentation using Educreations.

EDUCREATIONS PRESENTATION DONE ON IPAD

Below is one presentation that I created.  I created it on my iPad.

EDUCREATIONS.COM

This is an awesome presentation site that can be done on your PC or iPad.  You do have more flexibility with the iPad but you'll be impressed with those presentations done on your PC as well.  Go to the following URL and register an account:
http://www.educreations.com/
Then you will create a presentation incorporating five photos pertaining to your subject area.  Find these online.  Get a microphone and record your presentation.  If you want to delete this later, you can as long as I'm able to check off this assignment.  Once you have completed your prersentation, embed it into your blog.  This first presentation was done on my laptop.  Notice how it differs from the second one done on my iPad.

NEWLY DISCOVERED FEATURE WITH SCREENCASTOMATIC.COM

I just discovered how to include a webcam video with a screen capture using Screencastomatic.com.  Want to see what it looks like?

THINGLINK DONE HERE AT SCHOOL

Well I tried this one here at school this morning and it worked perfectly.  Hope they work during out workshop.