Sunday, October 17, 2010

PE3_SymbalooEDU

www.Symbalooedu.com



I sign up to this tool, I think this tool is very useful for educators and students. With this tool you can organize and share websites with your students.You can organized all your teaching resources in one place and you can keep communication with your students. This tool is very easy to use. Comparing this tool with iGoogle, Symbaloo EDU is more simple and it have more bright colors too. I love this application and I know I will be using from now.

PE1_Flash

This week I start viewing the Flash tutorials in Lynda.com. This is a software from Adobe Systems. With this software you can do websites and animations. Flash is also used in advertisement and games. The tutorial have 24 parts with 8 to 10 videos in each part. By this week I finish the first 3 parts. With every video that I watch, I have to practice the things that the tutorial teach me. This program is very challenging and a little difficult, I know that I have to practice a lot, but I will be learning it soon!!

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BP9_Kidopo




Kidopo is an online coloring application where kids can color online coloring books. There are many coloring pages to choose from like, cars, animals, cartoons, food, music, nature, seasons and a lot more.  This is a very cool tool for kids. I also have printables, which you can use in the classroom. It includes coloring sheets, bookmarks, awards, certificates, writing paper, room decorations and stickers. There are games, videos and a craft section. The craft section include step by step tutorial on how to do the crafts.

Kidopo help primary students practice mouse manipulation and a good way for you to gauge where their fine motor skills are. This website include video games: Arcade games, brain games, card and board games, Dora games girls games, math games, memory games, puzzle games, science games, sport games, word games, Sponge bob games and Holiday games.  This games are fun for kids.

I think this a very fun and educational tool to use in the classroom, especially for elementary school kids. Kidopo makes kids happier!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

W2_Reading

Typographic Faces

by Fred Showker

http://www.graphic-design.com/typography/design/typographic-faces

This article is about how different artist create typographic faces. It explain how the artists use contours to create an image. In this article he put different artists examples. This type of graphic design illustration is amazing.


Web Code Offers New Ways To See What Users Do Online
 

By TANZINA VEGA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?_r=1&ref=technology

This article talk about how web developers can give marketers and advertisers access to more details about computers users' online activities. It tell that the use of internet will have a lot of risks. It also talk about the new HTML 5 and its additional features present more tracking opportunities because the technology uses a process in which large amounts of data can be collected and stored on the user’s hard drive while online.


Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map 

By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/technology/11interior.html?ref=technology

This article talk about the new application for the iphone, ipad or ipod. With this application you can have a map of the inside of the mall, it will be easy for the people that have this app to find the stores, bathrooms, stairs, etc  inside the mall. This article explain all the features of this application.

In Higher Education, a Focus on Technology

The education gap facing the nation’s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary degree of any kind. Recent state budget cuts, education experts agree, promise to make closing that gap even more difficult. (Lohr, 2010). 

This article explain what how the Higher education is focusing on Technology.