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Digital Design: Resources
4.07.2010
Color
Graphics
An Adobe website that allows you to explore, create and save color palettes for use on the web. It is possible to upload images of your choice and sample colors. The application provides RGB, CMYK, and hexadecimal values for the colors.
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
Graphics
Jing
Jing is a free application which allows you to capture screen images from your computer and more.
http://www.jingproject.com/
Many Eyes
This website allows you visualize, share, and comment on data sets using different "visualization types."
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
Squidfingers Patterns
Travis Beckham, graphic designer, has made these seamless patterns available for free download. Please give credit by providing a link to the Squidfingers website if you use these patterns in your work.
http://www.squidfingers.com/
Tagxedo
This new word cloud generator is a moderated, kid-friendly forum that expands the possibilities for creating graphics from text. It's worth a little play time at least!
http://www.tagxedo.com/
The Pics4Learning Collection
Pics4Learning is a collection of donated images arranged in categories. Permission to students and teachers has been granted to use images donated to this library. Lesson plans for teachers are available, and teachers are encouraged to contribute lesson plans. Links to other "copyright-friendly" image sites are provided as well. http://www.pics4learning.com/
FontThis new word cloud generator is a moderated, kid-friendly forum that expands the possibilities for creating graphics from text. It's worth a little play time at least!
http://www.tagxedo.com/
The Pics4Learning Collection
Pics4Learning is a collection of donated images arranged in categories. Permission to students and teachers has been granted to use images donated to this library. Lesson plans for teachers are available, and teachers are encouraged to contribute lesson plans. Links to other "copyright-friendly" image sites are provided as well. http://www.pics4learning.com/
Identifont is a site which enables you identify a font by appearance, name, similarity, designer, or publisher. I have yet to try its companion site, Fontifier, but it sounds like fun. It allows you to use your own handwriting to create a font for use on the web.
http://www.identifont.com/
http://www.fontifier.com/
Wordle
This site helps you generate "word clouds" from text you provide. A variety of fonts, layouts, and color schemes are available.
http://www.wordle.net/
http://www.identifont.com/
http://www.fontifier.com/
Wordle
This site helps you generate "word clouds" from text you provide. A variety of fonts, layouts, and color schemes are available.
http://www.wordle.net/
Blog Resources
3.10.2010
1-Question Interview--Index Page
ProBlogger Darren Rowse "asked 14 of {his} favorite bloggers what they’d do differently if they were starting their blog again today. Their responses were varied" and are available on the index page linked above.
50 Great Widgets for Your Blog
Helpful, fun, and/or sexy additions for your blog: painter-a-day service, world timeclocks, etc.
Blogs in Plain EnglishA YouTube video demystifying blogs.
CreativeCommons
Free artwork, music, and tools.
The Cutest Blog on the Block
Free backgrounds, banners, and extras for personalizing blogs as well as secrets and tips from experienced blognuts.
EduBlogs
This free blogging platform bills itself as "the largest education community on the Internet."
Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers
ProBlogger Darren Rowse lists his readers' responses to the one-question interview he posed to "14 of {his} favorite bloggers."
Feed2Podcast.com
The dotcom makes me think that this product probably isn't free, but it enables bloggers to have people listen to their blogs rather than just reading them. It may prove useful.
MediaMaster
MM bills itself as "the best music experience on the web for accessing, listening and sharing your music collection." It allows you to upload your music and/or radio station to your blog so that you or others may listen to selections from your collection anywhere you can get an Internet collection. This one looks like a feebie to me.
MyStudiyo
Online software for creating quizzes to post on /embed in blogs and websites.
One Hundred Excellent Free WordPress Themes
I like what's in this name.
Our Blog Templates
Beautiful and free templates to download for use with Blogger blogs.
PodCast
The site bills itself as "the largest podcast collection on the web." "Find, play, and share audio and video podcasts from all over the world on Podcast.com and access them on any mobile device. "
Support Blogging
As "an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging," SupportBlogging! is an invaluable resource offering linked lists of blogs, bloggers, and blog builders.
Warlick, David F. Classroom Blogging. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2007.
This book provides practical, step-by-step advice for teachers about using free web services to establish blogs, wikis and podcasts for classroom use. Warlick’s Blog, Exactly 2 Cents Worth, http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ has many links to help teachers explore reading / writing / multimedia publishing options available on the web. Among these is http://supportblogging.com/Educational+Blogging
This book provides practical, step-by-step advice for teachers about using free web services to establish blogs, wikis and podcasts for classroom use. Warlick’s Blog, Exactly 2 Cents Worth, http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ has many links to help teachers explore reading / writing / multimedia publishing options available on the web. Among these is http://supportblogging.com/Educational+Blogging
A YouTube Video by Teachers for Teachers
Wordle
"Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "
WordPress
Free blogs and blogging help. Read more...
BlogLog: Reading Blogs
Please consider the following questions as you examine blogs from the four categories below--pedagogical, professional, personal, and educators on--whose titles or topics catch your eye.
- What is the blog's purpose? How does the blogger communicate her purpose? How well does the blog communicate its purpose?
- Does the blog address or target a particular audience? If so, how? How might you describe a representative audience member?
- In what ways does the blog engage the reader visually?
- What elements are present? For example, are there links, video clips, photographic images, graphic images, text, etc.? How do these elements help communicate a message?
- Does the blog elicit response? If so, how and/or what kinds of response are evident? To what extent are readers invited to participate: to comment or to post?
- What can you learn from the blog's title and URL?
Personal
- Meer Image: Fine Art Rubber Stamps
- Sightings: Steller's Jays
- Delicious Baby: Living the Good Life with Kids
- Thinking out Loud: Recycling Life into Art
- Cleo and Me
Professional
- The Tech Savvy Educator
- Blog of Proximal Development (An exploration of blogging communities in education.)
- Bud the Teacher: Inquiry and Reflection for Better Teaching
- Classroom Displays (Ideas, best practices, and celebrations of classroom displays world wide.)
- EdTech Journies (by teachers for teachers)
- EdTech Gold Rush (Resources addressing "educational technology, information literacy, low threshold and open source applications, and implementation in the K-12 classroom.")
- Teachers Teaching Teachers (A weekly webcast repository hosted by the National Writing Project's savviest techie.)
- Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson’s blog on applications for technology in K-12 classrooms.)
- WordPress Repair Kit (Education Fact and Fiction)
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Wesley Fryer advocates for the use of technology in the “learning revolution.”)
- Megan's Blog Desk (The blog is a resource for teachers who are interested in blogging. It has links to many examples and is set up as a workshop for teaching teachers.)
- Two Writing Teachers: Teaching Kids. Catching Minds. 872 Miles Apart.
- EduBlog Insights (Anne Davis' "comments, reflections, and occasional brainstorms" from the University of Georgia)
Reading about Blogs
Please read one or more of the following "locations":
- SupportBlogging.com
- "1-Question Interview"
- "Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers"
- Creative Commons' "Blogs in Plain English" (if you have headphones)
VoiceThread Applications: Hints from Our Participants
2.24.2010
- Sharing things with family. This can beat the heck out of Picasa or Shutterfly.
- Students studying the Holocaust being able to hear--really hear--Holocaust survivors.
- Showing US students the faces and the voices and the environments of other places--particularly, in this application, from Third World countries.
- How might this work to help students comment on each others' papers? Audio critique might work better than text.
- VoiceThreads can be embedded (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Moodle).
- A way to add text to YouTube videos, wikis, other platforms or "found" objects.
- Prewriting tool: group brainstorm.
- Textual intervention: alternate ways of interpreting a narrative, for instance.
- A "live" or "more live" family history or story.
- An interactive family album.
- Scan pictures from students' stories; add authors' voices "speaking" their stories. Video books?
- Pictures from a field trip can provide the platform for students adding their comments for family artifacts or classroom collections.
- Planning family reunions: leading up to and capturing the aftermath of these events.
Assignment Directions
Narrative Assignment: Choose an image (or a few images) and use your imagination to create a short narrative that either explains the image or can accompany it in some other way. Try to address the who, what, where, when, and why in your narrative.
Ad Analysis Assignment: Choose one of the advertisements and address the following questions in a short analysis: What exactly about the style or design of the ad is different, innovative, and eye catching? What is being sold and what is the implied "sales pitch"? Which cultural values are reflected in the ad?
Instructions for Getting Started:
1. Images to use for assignments can be found at Narrative Images or Ad Images, or in files with the same name at this lab's shared drive (the S drive). If the S drive is not working, images also can be sent to you as email attachments.
2. To begin, select an image (save to desktop as necessary), and then compose your narrative or analysis (use a notepad or word processing program).
3. To create your Voicethread, select the "Create" tab at Voicethread. Then browse, find your image, and upload it to Voicethread.
4. Next, record your commentary for each image with the "Comment" button, preview, and save your Voicethread.
5. The last step is to share your Voicethread with other people. You can invite others to view your Voicethread by entering them each as a separate contact (you will need an email address for each person to invite). Or, you can copy and paste a link to your Voicethread into an email and send to the entire group (use "reply all" option).
Short Example:
Nicolette's McDonald's
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