Monday, November 9, 2009

BL9_2009112_Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools


Glitterfly.com   I found this great new fun site to use with my students.  As you can see the students can really be creative with this site and images.  The can really change up their projects with this.  My students do a projects called "All About Me" that begins with them not even being able to create a Power Point to a full movie with sound and narration.  This site can perk up the most dull Power Point project and give them a chance to expand it beyond a regular project.

The site also gives you a url like this to link http://www.glitterfly.com/ to many different places. There are so many possibilities to use this site with projects that students can really be creative with. I love to create different things and know that this saves as a gif extension. I am still learning many of these things so my question of the day is can you import this into iMovie and keep the glitters and flitters available?  It was so cool to just click on the



icon and your sparkle picture is posted to your blog!
The chart above has some other Web 2.0 tools that I had taken the time to explore but then there are many sites that I have never heard of like Black Planer, Multiply, H5. This page also has links to be able to create your own layouts, fun backgrounds. You can also link and add pictures to your own websites as well. Think that I will try to add this picture to my iWeb site as well. So many toys, so little time to play with them!

Tried to import this to my iWeb site but was unable to get it to work. I think one of my followers would have the knowledge of how to do this. If you know post the answer so we can all see!

1 comment:

  1. Toni,
    Glitterfly sounds like a great site, I'm definitly going to pass it on to our art teacher! By the way, I love the sparkly picture of you, very nice. If you want to get the picture of you glittering to your iWeb, be sure that you save it as a jpeg. The same can be said for any screenshot or photo. To do this, open the image in Preview and then go to save as. It will give you options, I think the preset option is tiff. Scroll up to jpeg and save. Then open your iPhoto and drag and drop. When your in iWeb next the photo should be available!

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