Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Sites to look at for creating your creative work

I would like you to take a look at 3 of the following sites and write a review for your favorite and your least favorite as a user on this blog.  I think it will be interesting to see what people think of the sites and its functionality, since each of you will have your own individual needs. You may stay in one category or try a variety of them. 

Each review should include:

·                Name of program/site 

·                URL 

·                Purpose of the site 

·                Things that you like about the photo editing tool

·                Drawbacks to the photo editing tool

·                Would you recommend this tool to a friend? Why or why not?

You may go here to discover by category

http://edjudo.com/web-2-0-teaching-tools-links

Story Creating Web 2.0 tools

Here are some Web 2.0 sites that deal with creating storybooks, comics, animations or helping with the writing process.
Please choose a site and create your own story.  Please share it with me when you are finished. 

www.storyjumper.com             

www.kerpoof.com

www.zooburst.com

www.storybird.com

http://lightningbug.com.au/index.htm

http://www.xtranormal.com/

http://www.bitstrips.com/

http://www.doink.com/

Audio editing Web 2.0 tools

http://www.wavosaur.com/

http://www.audioexpert.com/

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://www.ujam.com/

Photo editing Web 2.0 tools

Our world is filled with images that are "photoshopped" or manipulated in some way shape or form.   The term "photoshopped" has been coined  from Adobe PhotoShop being the biggest photo editing software in both personal and professional fronts. Due to the increase of Web 2.0 tools and cloud computing,  many free photo editing sites, similar to photoshop,  have arisen.

Here are some of the sites for you to look at:
www.pixlr.com
www.anymaking.com
www.tuxpi.com
www.splashup.com
www.fotoflexer.com
www.citrify.com
www.photovisi.com


 If you use something other than these programs please post a comment with the URL so that others may check it out as well and you may review it.

Today's assignments

Complete the following-all are in your email

1. Creative assignments survey
2. Copyrights and wrongs
3. Rights remixes and respect

Word Assessment Part 1

Microsoft Word Assessment

Today you will use your Microsoft office skills to create a children's place-mat menu.

Look up place-mat menus online to get an idea, then  complete the following:

Create a Children’s Restaurant Menu/Place-mat

Size:  8 ½” x 14”

Create a children’s placemat menu for your favorite restaurant.  Start a blank publication.  Change the page orientation to Landscape.  Change the paper size to 8 ½ x 14”.  Set the margins to narrow ( .5” all around).

Side One (page 1):

Come up with a creative name for your restaurant.  Put it on your menu.

Must include

6 menu main course items,

4 drink choices, and

3 desserts.

Offer a description (google restaurants to sample their children’s menu items). Be specific and somewhat detailed.

You CANNOT copy text from the internet

Adjust font sizes and text boxes to be sure all meal offerings fit on one page. 

5 points each

Side Two (page 2):

Must include 4 games

Examples are riddles, connect the dots, crossword, word finder, etc.

Only use one of each type of game. For example you can only use tic, tac, toe once.  Games CAN be copied from the internet.

10 points each

Your menu must be colorful and include

• a minimum of 4 different font types,
• a minimum of 4 different colors
• 10 clips (images CAN be copied from the Internet, i.e. pictures of your menu items, burgers, fries, etc.)

HAVE FUN!

Mail Merge

Mail Merge 

Today's assignment is dealing with Mail Merge. You will be using Excel and Word to create this.
Please see below for your mail merge assignment.

What is a mail merge?

Facility provided by most word processing program whereby a form-letter can be sent to many recipients, each letterpersonalized for each recipient. The program takes each recipients name and address (from a mailing list) and enters it in its usual place on the letter, and also prints out mailing labels. 
(taken from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/mailmerge.html )

Mail Merge Assignment-Envelopes

1.  Open up a New Excel File,  Save it as yourname_addressbook
2.  Enter the information as follows in Row 1 
Last name   First Name    Street Address   City/Town   State    Zip code 

3.  Complete it with 10 of your family or friends information, making sure to format your zip code column

4.  Save

5.  Open up Word

6. Click on "tools" on the menu bar

7.  choose Mail merge Manager, a toolbox/window will appear with steps on it

7.  Click on create new> choose envelope

8.  Add your your own address in the bottom envelope of the box, where it says return address.

9.  Click ok

10.  Click on "get list" > Open data source >choose file > open

you should see this screen, click ok

11.  You should now see items in your placeholders appear.  These should be the categories you listed in row 1.

 12.  Now you will drag the placeholders into your envelope as follows:
         First Name Last name
         Street Address
          City, State  zip code
Your document should look like this

 13.  You are going to skip 4 and 5 on your box and move right to 6.  Complete Merge.  Click on the second button from the left "Merge to new Document"

   

14.  After clicking, this a new document should appear with your envelopes addressed.

15.  Save this file as completed merge_yourname

16.  Add your file to the class folder on your dock.