Here are some great sites and tips to help you with our technology projects.
http://www.online-convert.com/
Forget Your USB stick? Create a Dropbox account for free. Dropbox stores your files online so you can access them from any computer, smart phone or mobile device. A great resource for students.tes that I have used in class that I feel could be useful for you at home.
http://www.online-convert.com/
Forget Your USB stick? Create a Dropbox account for free. Dropbox stores your files online so you can access them from any computer, smart phone or mobile device. A great resource for students.tes that I have used in class that I feel could be useful for you at home.
Smilebox- Smilebox is a program I used in classe to create a slideshows and collages you can view them in the Mr. M page. It is a free program to download to your computer and creates great products. Try it out the link is here: http://www.smilebox.com/
Posting your sliderocket.com presentation to your wiki page.
1. Once you have finished edited and saved your sliderocket presentation, click "share"2. Click the get embed button an then copy the embed code.
3. Go to your wiki page and make sure it is in edit mode by clicking edit.
4. Click the insert button.
5. Choose HTML/Javascript
6. Paste in the embed code and hit insert plug in.
7. Once it is in hit save and you are done.
Here is a link about taking screenshots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk4b2PaoC641. Creating a Wordle
1.Open wordle.net and a word processing document (like Word). http://www.wordle.net/
2. In your Word document type the words you want. Remember to type the words that you want to be large more often than the others.
3. Spell check your words.
4. Go to the wordle.net site and hit the CREATE button.
5. Paste the words into the box and click "Go"
6. Edit the font and layout as you wish.
7. When you are finished click open window.
8. Take a screenshot of your page and then upload it to your Wiki page.
9. Good luck and have fun.
Screenshots on a Mac
- Hold down the COMMAND [Apple/Clover Leaf] and SHIFT keys
- Press 3 for a screen shot of the entire screen
- Press 4 to get a "Crosshairs" so you can select just a section of the screen you want a screenshot for!
- Press the space bar after you press 4 if you want it to automatically size the screenshot so that it perfectly matches the window it's over. After you press the space bar, a camera icon should come up.
- Know that the resulting file will be placed on your desktop, named Picture X.pdf for versions of 10.3 or earlier and Picture X.png for 10.4 and later (could also end in .jpg).
- Press Esc to cancel.
Posting Your prezi.com to your Wiki
1. In Prezi, click the embed button, this will give you an embed code. Copy the code.
2. Go to your wiki page and go on edit mode.
3. Put your cursor to where you want your Prezi to be.
4. Click the Insert button and then click HTML/Java scipt.
5. Paste your embed code here and click next.
6. Click "Insert Plugin"
7. Now click "save" on your wiki and you are all set!
How to Post Your fotobabble.com
1. Once you are done recording your Fotobabble, copy the embed code located on the right of your screen.
2. Go into your wiki page and in edit mode click the insert button.
3. Choose HTML/Javascript
4. Paste in the embed code and hit insert plug in.
5. Once it is in hit save and you are done.
How to upload a video to Vimeo
Uploading a Video to Vimeo and Adding a Password from Chris Murphy on Vimeo.
How to Upload a Video to Youtube.
