'New Tools'
Hey, it’s the Vampire Slaying Cricket From Zambobway and I recently found a new tool called GIMP. GIMP lets you create templates for websites, blogs, and forums! It also lets you create desktop wallpapers, which is what I took advantage of!
Below are some of the wallpapers I made. I also have some posted on my blog under “Modern Typewriter Downloads” at themoderntypewriter.com. I made my own design “company” called Modern Typewriter Designs. So that will be the reason why at the bottom in the corner of every design it says Modern Typewriter Designs. Just click on the picture to enlarge it, and then right-click, and set as your desktop background!
To get GIMP, go to it’s website: www.gimp.org. To get the program, you will have to download it.
Anyway, once you’ve done that, GET “GIMPING”!
It is so much fun and easy to use. I started making wallpapers within an hour! So try it! You’ve got nothing to lose!
-The Vampire Slaying Cricket From Zambobway
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-The Modern Typewriter
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-Captain Crunch
March 23rd, 2008
Twitter is one of the new technology tools that I really like and use everyday. Twitter is a free online service intended for people to use to update what they are doing so friends and family will know. It prompts you with a “What are you doing?” prompt question but you can stray from that prompt. You also “follow” people, meaning when they post a comment it shows up on your twitter home page.
It is very fun to say what you are doing and to see what other people are doing too. It would be especially useful for you if you had friends and family in different parts of the world because it is a way to keep in touch with them. Also, once you see what they are doing, you can help them with it.
In the future I plan on using twitter with my classmates from school. It would be very useful if we had a group project because then we could tell each other what we were working on with the project. By doing this, we could collaborate ideas and know what part of the project we were supposed to be working on. Also, we could get homework help and study for test together.
On a scale of one to ten, with ten being OUTSTANDING, I would give twitter a eight, AMAZING. What are you waiting for , go sign up for a twitter account today and start updating. Your only excuse is not here because twitter is FREE!
~DJ Cash Money~
February 18th, 2008
Have you ever heard of a voicethread? If not then if you sign up and log in, you can hear yourself through a microphone. Voicethread is a commenting tool. You can use it for commenting on anything. There is also a teaching voicethread website called ed voicethread.
You can do a lot of things with a voicethread like comment with any of the following: a phone, a microphone, a webcam(if you use a webcam then for internet safety disguise yourself), or plain old boring typing. You can also make a picture of yourself when to go with a comment(you shouldn’t use a picture of yourself or anyone you know for internet saftey reasons), if you have an internet name than I would consider using pic.s from a website for your identity(picture). There is also a bunch of other stuff you can do in a comment.
When you sign up you can also make a voicethread by clicking create in the top left corner of the voicethread homepage. When you make a voicethread you can use almost every file you could save a picture as(jpeg, gif, art, bitmap). When and if you want make a voicethread public you have to think about one main thing: is this a topic lots of people would comment on? Because I was scrolling through some public voicethreads and most of them had 10 to 11 comments tops. So if you want people to comment on your voicethread a lot then try to make it an interesting topic.
This is most of the things you will be seeing on voicethread.
Signed,
-The Joker
Image retreived from:http://tinyurl.com/2p8la9
February 8th, 2008
Skype is one of my new favorite technology tools out there. It is an application that you can download from skype.com for Mac and Windows. It allows you to call other skype users for free, anywhere in the world, via a mic and talk to them just as if you were on a telephone. Also you can text other skype users for free too. In addition to those features, you can call land lines and cell phones for a cheap rate. You can pay those low rates by buying skype pro and/or buying skype credit. If your friends don’t have skype, you can set up an online number so they can call you on skype with their old-fashioned phones.
In the future, I plan on using skype to talk to my classmates to get homework help, study for quizzes and tests, and work on group projects. By doing this we could collaborate our expertise and ideas to get things done faster and more efficiently.
Did I mention that I LOVE skype? I recommend that everyone downloads and uses this product. I would give a ten out of ten, OUTSTANDING.
~DJ Cash Money~
January 14th, 2008
This is pageflakes another tool that Bam Bam had showed us. Pageflakes is kind of like your online life on a website. In pageflakes you can create a page with all your favorite websites if they have an RSS or XML on the page. XML and RSS is websites or web pages that get updated and can post the edited content’s link that they have on to your page flake or other things.
Pageflakes are good for using because they can have the links to your favorite websites. Also they are great for a group of people to use. In pageflakes their can be a large # of people in a flake page group. In pageflakes if you have a website bookmarked then you can put a flake in pageflakes for all you bookmarks. This is a very useful since almost any website can be put on your flake page. If you want to put news articles into your pageflake then you should visit the flake often.
the smiling crazy clown,
The Joker
image retrieved from: http://tinyurl.com/2c2dua
November 24th, 2007
This is a very easy to use internet tool that Bam Bam had showed us. When you go on to Tinyurl.com you just enter a long URL and turn it into a small one for example copy shortcut (left click) this URL into a tinyurl. This is a website I use all the time in projects for writing URLs down on paper.
from the smiling crazy clown,
The Joker
Image retrieved from: http://tinyurl.com/3aa5pg
November 21st, 2007
Recently, our boy DJ Cash Money began experimenting with Animoto—a neat free program that allows users to easily create short and engaging videos. As Cash Money mentioned in his review, Animoto “formats the pictures into a high energy, eye catching display. A great thing about it is that it only takes about five minutes to make and it is free.”
If you’re interested in creating your own Animoto presentation, here’s a template that will help you with your planning:
Animoto Planning Template
Remember to select a topic that is interesting and connected to something that you’re doing in class. Also remember that if you decide to include your own audio—-rather than audio that you select from the Animoto library—you must use Royalty Free music. There are a collection of Royalty Free tracks in our NASA video project post that you can use.
Rock on,
Bam Bam Bigelow
November 18th, 2007
While in tech club (Plug Me In) Bam Bam told us about a new online tool on animoto.com. The tool is used to make advanced slideshows. You add your own pictures and then pick music from your own library or their library on the site. Then it formats the pictures into a high energy, eye catching display.
A great thing about it is that it only takes about five minutes to make and it is free. Also, the way it formats the pictures looks very nice and you can make as many as you want.
One thing that I don’t like about the tool is that only thirty second slideshows are free, if you want a full length slideshow it cost three dollars. Also, it would be nice to be able to format the pictures yourself than rather have the tool do it for you.
On a scale of one to ten, with ten being outstanding, I would give it a seven. Here is an example of one that I have made.
~DJ Cash Money~
November 10th, 2007
Gamemaker 7.0 is a free program used for creating games. It is complicated but very useful.
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/
Here is a website I made to post things I have made with this:
www.freewebs.com/clayworx
Sincerely, Zdrok
November 6th, 2007
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