Monday, November 29, 2010

JUXIO

What is Juxio?
"Juxio is a new visual way to communicate. Individuals and businesses use Juxio to combine images, text and more into mashable, visual streams called Juxes to share across social media and in print."
How do you create Juxes?
Juxes can be created on both Web and iPhone/iPad apps - and there will be support for additional mobile devices in the future.

Signing up for Juxio is free:
1. Click on "Sign Up" in the top right hand corner of the Home Page.
2. Enter your name, email address and password in the popup screen.
Your password must include alphanumeric characters only.
Note also that you can change your password at a later date, but not your email address.

See a Tutorial:  http://www.juxio.com/beta/Help.php?page=Tutorials
How to integrate Juxio into your curriculum:
  • Juxio is a fantastic online tool to use for online visual creation.  Students can mash-up text and photos to create their own Jux that can be used to organize information or display understanding. 
  • Use Juxio for animal classification, vocabulary, historical time lines, changes over time, to tell a linear story, or display any information in an organized fashion. 
  • Take pictures of a science experiment for students to turn into a Jux; they can start at the beginning of the experiment adding captions to each picture.  Text boxes can be added for students to type in their hypothesis at the beginning of the experiment and to add a concluding statement at the end. 
  • Take pictures of a school field trip and create a Juxio to tell the story of what happened on the field trip. 
  • The small area for writing makes Juxio an ideal place for creating media versions of poetry, and it would allow for teaching about how to choose a suitable image to match the tone of words.
A Jux can be created individually by students in a computer lab setting, or by a whole class using an interactive whiteboard.   After students create a Jux, they can save it as a PDF file, print it, or share it online via email, Facebook, Twitter, or url.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

PRESENTATION RESOURCES ON LiveBinders

LiveBinders on Presentation Resources  Click her to see!
Here is a list of websites that students could use to make presentations - in some cases, could be alternatives to Powerpoint, keep your notes for class, organize by topic, etc.

If you haven't seen Live Binders, play around with it also!!

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web

  • Collect your resources
  • Organize them neatly and easily
  • Present them with pride
Best of all, it's free!
There are tons of LiveBinders already created.  
Here is one on iPad in Education:   http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=26242

Video Tutorials    http://livebinders.com/?type=video




 

 



LiveBinders are free!
You can create, share, and present as many LiveBinders as you want for free. They plan to offer this basic service for free into the future.
The free version has the following upload limitations:
  • You can upload any file size up to 5 MB. (This is the size of the individual file being uploaded.)
  • Total upload storage for free is 100 MB per account.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Tagxedo - Word Cloud Generator with Shapes!

Word Cloud Generator  

There are two things that separate Tagxedo from similar tools like Tagul, Wordle, and Word It Out.   First, as anyone can see by visiting Tagxedo, it is very easy to customize the design of your word clouds. You can select from a variety of shapes in which to display words or you can design your shape for your word cloud. You can enter text into the word cloud generator manually or simply enter a url from which Tagxedo will generate a word cloud. As with other word cloud generators you also have options for excluding words from your word clouds.

The second thing that makes Tagxedo different from its competitors is a good variety of image download options. Tagxedo gives you eighteen options for saving your word clouds as png or jpeg files.


Applications for Education  Word cloud tools like Tagxedo can be useful for visual learners who need a visual depiction of the words of emphasis in a text. You could try having students use Tagxedo as an tool in the editing of their written work. Have students paste the text of an essay they've written into Tagxedo to see how often they use particular words or phrases. The students can then reflect on why they've used a particular word so often. 

Nov. 3 - Republicans
Take House, Democrats
keep Senate

Or you could pull up their Daily Tagxedo   http://daily.tagxedo.com/  Each day a Tagxedo is created from current events, trending topics or whimsical Idea of the Day!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Dipity - Create Digital Timeline

What is Dipity? http://www.dipity.com/

What it is: Dipity is a site that makes it simple for your students to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines.
Dipity makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, students are creating timelines in “their language.”  You have to check this one out…look at a sample timeline to see how truly superior these timelines are to the traditional paper/pencil timeline.

How to integrate Dipity into the classroom:
  • Create a timeline of your fieldtrip, demo in the classroom,
  • Students can bring history to life by embedding relevant You Tube video into their timelines.
  • Create a timeline of your day by combining Dipity with your classroom tweets from Twitter.
  • Timelines can be created by students individually or as a class and posted on a class website as a study resource.
Dipity makes your classroom interactive and engaging for students. This is where real learning takes place! To introduce Dipity to your students, invite them to create a timeline of their day or their lives using Dipity (if they have a family Flickr account they can embed pictures right into their timeline).
Tips: Students can look at the content they add to Dipity in four different views:
Timeline, List View, Flipbook, and Map View (this only works if the timeline has been tagged with locations.)