5. I’d rate my parents a 9/10 on a scale of how well they know me because I am honest and I tell my parents everywhere I go on the internet. They check my web history and see where I’ve been, too.
Here are some tips for parents
• Check your child’s web history
Add comment November 29th, 2007
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
Add comment 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
Add comment 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:
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
Add comment November 18th, 2007
One of our favorite final products has to be the interesting—and simple—tutorials being created by the Commoncraft folks called Papercraft tutorials. Done with nothing more than a whiteboard and paper, these tutorials are just plain interesting to watch!
While papercraft tutorials would be appropriate for a wide range of topics, they may be particularly interesting as a final product for the NASA Project that we’re beginning to tackle. They certainly would be different from anything else submitted for the competition.
Either way, here’s a template that you can use to draft a papercraft tutorial.
Remember that half of the challenge of a papercraft tutorial is creating the paper figures to go with your presentation. The other half of the challenge is coming up with a script that’s interesting!
Rock on,
Bam Bam Bigelow
1 comment November 18th, 2007
Alright, Plug Me In-ers, here’s a project that’s right up our alley:
SCIENCE: MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION
http://www.explorationpodcast.com/
Middle grades students who enter the 21st Century Explorer Podcast
Competition will produce a 60-second audio or video podcast that
answers the question: “What do you think is NASA’s greatest
exploration achievement in the past 50 years and why?” There will be
prizes — and we’re pretty sure, based on the promotional material at
this website, that PIZZAZZ counts! Click on “About the Competition”
to get the complete details. The content, sponsored by the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, hopes to “encourage
today’s students to become tomorrow’s explorers.” Deadline for
submission is January 4, 2008.
Let’s see if we can win this thing! After all, we’ve got podcasting and digital movie making down pat and we’ve got more than a passing interest in the lunacy that NASA is involved in!
Here’s a template that you can use to plan a vodcast—or video podcast—that we’ll eventually post here in Plug Me In and on The Blurb:
You’ll need to use Moviemaker or Garage Band to do your actual recording. If you’re not sure how to use Moviemaker, be sure to get the templates that Bam Bam has in class. They’re step-by-step directions, so you’re sure to be able to follow them.
You’ll also need some royalty free music to include in your presentation. Music always makes presentations more interesting. Here are a bunch of royalty free songs that we can use. The tracks are all one minute long—which is the length that videos for the competition are allowed to be:
Just remember to include the credit tagline at the end of your production, though. While these tracks are royalty free, you do need to give credit to the creators.
Rock on,
Bam Bam Bigelow
Add comment 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~
1 comment November 10th, 2007
Everyone has had a babysitter or nanny at some time or another. They tend to children and usually give them guidance and attention. And many times we even envision a friendly “Mary Poppins” with a smile on her face.
So is a robotic sitter a bit of a stretch? Can they really give the same amount of love and care a human can? After all, they don’t have feelings. Well, scientists have been studying the interactions between children and robots. They report that toddlers actually socialize and form a bond with the androids. In fact, when their “friend” fell over the kids would help it up by pulling on its arms, just like they would to a human.
In this case the robots have been quite beneficial to people. However, many adults are afraid of the androids acting like their movie counterparts. Numerous Hollywood films such as “Artificial Intelligence”, “The Terminator”, and “I Robot” depict robots as dangerous machines out to destroy the human race. This has deterred many people from wanting to use robots because they fear they can become too clever.
So, should robots become man’s best friend or are they best left for the assembly line?
~Anonymous Bob
1 comment November 6th, 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:
Sincerely, Zdrok
1 comment November 6th, 2007
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