Week+3


 * Week Three - January 27**

[|iGoogle] "private" personalized/individual webpage with widgets - you can use it from any computer, but most use your personal Google login

[|Pageflakes] public personalized webpage with widgets - you can use it from any computer [|Environment Flake]

[|Google Docs] - Online document storage

[|Wordle] word "cloud" generator If you don't want to print your Wordle immediately, your can "print" a pdf of it, or the best way to "save" your wordle is: right after you create it, do a "print screen" and paste it into paint, then use the select tool and select only the part you want, then click "cut. Close paint and don't save. Reopen paint and use the "paste" command and the image you "cut" will appear. Save it as a jpg (use the drop down menu & select jpg)! [|43 interesting ways to use Wordle in your classroom]

[|Cacoo] - online graph & diagram builder - collaborative

[|Webspiration] inspiration type of application

[|Cooltext] - Image creation package that allows choice of objects, colors, and lighting BLOCKED Here's an example of [|Cooltext used on a webpage]

[|Glogster] online interactive poster builder - imbed the image into a blog or wiki BLOCKED for an example: a [|kids search poster]

[|Google Earth]

[|Google Lit Trips] This is a way to use Google Earth to map out a journey, the voyage in a novel, a historical event, a class field trip and more. You can create them yourself or use ones other teachers have created.

Here's a useful blog post on exactly how to [|use place holders in Google Earth] and create your own "overlay".