Susie+Steinbeck

his myI spent a long time trying to make a presentation with Vuvox. The web 2.0 Lets you clip things out of pictures, resize and tilt photos, add video and text. Very classy and professional, but I couldn't get my photos uploaded and it kept closing on me. I am going to give it another try, I think 8th graders would really like this web app.

Since I didn't use photopeach on the first day of class, I made a quick one of my grandson, but I was not able to put it in the wiki as it was in photopeach. But something showed up.

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Wordle is an online tool for generating word clouds. Words that you type more then once are bigger than the others and you can change the colors, fonts, and they directions the text layout. Wordle is so fun for all ages they can create Covers for reports, posters, and just have fun with it. Doesn't take long to use. I have the students start in work and copy into wordle, it is easier to fix mistakes. I worked on a prezi, and I am glad to have done it this week, I doubt I would have had the patience without a cause. Prezi is a 2.0 presentation tool that  i s a web-based using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships which addresses some of the shortcomings of Microsoft PowerPoint.

This is my attempt to put in a prezi. I have read all their information and all they mention is about wordpress blogs. So I am not sure what a wiki is compared to that, my prezi is called marsupials, and it is public. This is the embeded code. For what it is worth. I tried to embed it as a widget and added code what you see below is what you get, as far as I could tell. code .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }  Marsupials on Prezi code This is my next attempt and it doesn't look much better. I kind of get the impression that the prezi needs a public reader, and I couldn't figure that one out or where to put it. I guess the owner of the wiki needs to put it in.

.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"/><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=s5mtelt05ew_&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no"/><embed id="preziEmbed_s5mtelt05ew_" name="preziEmbed_s5mtelt05ew_" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=s5mtelt05ew_&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no"> Marsupials</a> on Prezi</a>




 * PLN**

I started out with delcious, and barely had that going, now Diigo. I realize that it is a tool that will help me bookmark important websites that I need. I am so used to just searching for what I want and not letting others do the walking for me. Now I can just go to my diigo page and get the site I need. I can also share my sites with others and they can do so in return. **Skype**: Was fun, I have had the capabilities to do this at home, but somedays that would not be a good sight. My kitchen is in the background, not always picked up. Hopefully we can find ways to skype in class with something useful.
 * Diigo**

**Google Reader**: Seems like this is similar to Diigo, don't know which I will use more. I am not very proficient with this and still need to work on it.

**Twitter**: We hear about Twitter and Tweets, now I know what they are. I have used this and try to go there everyday. I tend to go to tweetdeck, because it is singing to me all the time.