Creating avatars in education can help get the creative juices flowing and create safe images to post of the students online. Here is a list of ideas for using avatars in classrooms: Create book trailers with the avatars representing the characters Teachers can put their avatar in their powerpoints to get the kids attention. Create [...]
The Winter Olympics are 10 days away. Soon the TV airwaves will be full ofwinter sports, some of which we only get to see every 4 years. So how can you incorporate this historic event into your classroom? I’ve gone through several websites (listed at the bottom of this post) and grouped some ideas into [...]
I ran across http://www.befunky.com/ through my PLN (Personal Learning Network) and have been playing with the possibilities. It requires no fees and no sign in or account to be created. Of course the first place I start when playing with photos is my kids. The process of uploading pictures is very simple: Navigate to the [...]
Need Pictures: Comp Flight – http://compfight.com/ What is it? Searches Flickr for photos for the term you give it. The results are returned on one page in thumbnail form instead of a list of images that you have to page through in Flickr. Hold your mouse over an image and you can see the image [...]