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Saturday, October 17, 2009

BP12_2009103_Web2.0#5_Pixinate

http://www.pixinate.com
Pixinate is a website that allows you to load up a picture from your computer and edit it with user easy tools. So if your not proficient with Photoshop, Pixinate can help you edit, resize, crop,and manipulate your photos. Pixenate has a fairly uncomplicated interface, with all options clustered on the left as icons. You can start playing with it as soon as you first land on its homepage, with the random sample photo that appears. A basic text box browse button lets you pick a file on your system to upload and edit. There's also an Import to Pixenate bookmarklet available, which you can simply drag to your browser links for a way to edit any web page image you come across. With the bookmarklet installed, when you go to a web page with images on it and click the Import to Pixenate link, you get a numbered list of all the images on the page; you can click on any one of them for editing.Pixenate offers 18 tools (8 of which are initially hidden under the link Show fun effects), but they can make a big difference in your pictures appearance. Here they are:
Tools:
* Enhance—a general picture improver to boost colors, reduce noise, and smoothen faces. We'd like to have seen some controls over how much it does each of these optimizations.
* Fill light—an automated light booster with no controls.
* Crop—includes presets for typical photo sizes—4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and square.
* Resize
* Rotate
* Spirit level—for straightening pictures with horizons.
* Red eye correction—At first it can be a little tricky aligning the correction box, and once we ended up with a blue pupil.
* Whiten—for teeth—no brushing or trays required!
* Sepia
* Colors—One of the few tools with some controls. For some reason brightness, saturation, and hue get slider controls, while contrast is relegated to integer adjustments up to plus or minus 3. Also, the changes are shown in the small detail of the image, but not live in the whole image.
Fun effects:
* Lomo—a dark halo effect that saturates colors in the middle of the image.
* Filter—with colored lens.
* Round—for edges.
* Interlace—adds TV-style lines.
* Snow—for that wintry feel.
* Text
* Oil Paint
* Charcoal
As with all of these programs, Undo and Redo are available. The select command, in addition to letting you crop, lets you apply an effect to just part of the image.

When you're done editing your photograph, you can save it to disk, upload it to your flickr account, or get a URL for it via Webshots for use on your blog or MySpace page.
Information from:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2108977,00.asp

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Web 2.0 tools #6 www.Totlol.com

Web 2.0 tools #6 www.Totlol.com

Totlol is a website that hosts videos

that are age appropriate. This site requires you to first set up a username and password. The next set up option allows you to set up an age optimizer including infant, toddler, pre-schooler, kindergarten, young kid, and tween. This is helpful to guarantee that the information that you and your children are looking at will be appropriate. Totlol is affiliated with Youtube but is monitored by the users. The user cannot embed or l

ocate a url directly from totlol but there is a hyperlink using the video’s name that sends the user to the youtube site. The embed and url codes along with other sharing options are now available. If a user wants to remember a specific video on totolo they can set it as a favorite to come back later. Each time a user watches a video there is an option to rate, suggest an age group, and approve it for children. Users can participate in building collections of movies, screening new movies, or uploading their own movies.

There are many applications for this tool in education. The first and most obvious is that Totlol could be used as teaching tool. Teachers can easily find a short video to add into a presentation for fun or to reinforce their lesson. A quick search on WWII brought me to a fun Bugs Bunny animation.

This site is also student friendly. Students could search this site for images that they would like to incorporate in their own presentations. Teachers and parents will be assured that students will not find inappropriate images on their search.

Web 2.0 tools #5 http://quizlet.com

Web 2.0 tools #5 http://quizlet.com

Quizlet.com is a great way to customize a study system online for your students. The first thing the administrator needs to do is to create a set. The set will include a list of terms that you would like your students to know. The administrator will then select tags, choose users and editors, a description of the list, and then type in the data.

The information is now set up for students to begin. There are three categories familiarize, learn, and test. Familiarize is a basic note card study activity. Terms are visible and can be flipped back and forth to reinforce the information. The Learn activity asks students to type in the correct term. Quizlet responds with your answer correct or incorrect. Incorrect answers are accompanied by the correct answer. Once all of the terms have been displayed the students’ final statistics will show up including right and wrong answers. The student has an opportunity to redo the wrong answers. Test is the last category and is a final test of the terms. The test can be set up for True and False, multiple choice, write in, or matching answers. The test results are immediately viewed after the test and can also be printed. The information is color-coded green and red for correct and incorrect answers and a grade and percentage is calculated for the student. Two games are also included, scatter and space race. Scatter is a matching game incorporating speed. Space Race is a typing game that focuses on correctness and speed.

Quizlet can be used with out a customized setting. The main page has many navigational buttons to choose the topic you would like to quiz yourself on including language, math, science, etc. Students can choose very specific or general quiz pages, for example basic algebra terms.

I think the applications to education are obvious from the above summary. This webtool is great because it can be used in school or at home for any subject. Quizlet could be used for summative or formative assessment. Students that use this tool are preparing themselves for evaluations not only in their everyday classrooms but also for state and national testing.

Web 2.0 Tool #4 www.widgetbox.com

Web 2.0 Tool #4 www.widgetbox.com

Widgetbox.com is a site that offers an endless amount of widgets to choose from. Widgets can be added to social networks, personal

websites, public websites, schools, businesses, etc and can be used for teaching, personal goals and tasks, as well as entertainment and fun. There are two easy ways to find a cool widget. Type key words into the search menu or locate a menu on the right that provides a selection of tags to narrow down your search. Tagged topics include education, clocks, humor, fun, family, etc. The following is a summary of two different widgets that I found on wwww.widgetbox.com and their educational uses

Calorie Counter widget

This widget calculates your personal age, weight, height, and exercise pattern in order to determine your appropriate daily caloric intake. The calorie counter breaks the days eating into breakfast, lunch, dinner, and miscellaneous. Drop down menus provide a variety of foods to choose from to add to your diet. Each time you add food you have eaten the Calorie counter adds it up for you.

How can the Calorie Counter be used in education?

This tool would be a great addition to any health or physical education class. Counting calories promotes healthy eating habits. Factoring in body size along with age and exercise pattern encourages positive self-image and awareness for how the metabolism works. This is simple human physiology identifying human consumption and calorie burning. Counting calories can also be a cross curricular activity with mathematics. Adults might have fun using this widget for fun in a weight watchers program or biggest loser competition.

Karooba Endless Educational Trivia Quiz

This widget is a classic quiz game. The fun part about this game is that you first type in your age so that the questions are appropriate. The game brings you through a series of questions and scores you at the end.

How can Karooba Endless Educational Trivia be used in education?

I think this widget would be a fun addition to any class webpage. The questions are random so it would be hard to include this in a specific lesson theme. This quiz tool can be used as a fun activity to prepare for standardized testing. Today’s students have a lot of pressure to score well on standardized tests; practicing with this game could get students used to reading and answering questions quickly, answer questions on random topics, and build confidence for test taking.

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