PhotoFunia
Filed Under (Resources, Web 2.0) by Heather Hurley on 25-11-2008
PhotoFunia is a neat photo generator where you can put yourself into the picture. Great for using with blogs and wikis. Below are a few examples of what it can do.
Geography From Space - Online Quiz
Filed Under (Resources, Uncategorized) by Heather Hurley on 14-11-2008
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Geography From Space - Online Quiz
2008 Geography Awareness Quiz Nov 16- 22
Webpages as Graphs
Filed Under (Resources) by Heather Hurley on 07-11-2008
I came across Webpages as Graphs while reviewing Jennifer Dorman’s Discovery’s Virtual Conference Presentation. Just type in a website and it instantly graphs it. It’s quite pretty to watch. Below is what this blog looks like as a graph.
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links
red: for tables
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images
yellow: for forms
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
Embedding PDF’s on Your Website
Filed Under (Resources) by Heather Hurley on 29-05-2008
I love the look a PDF file. It’s clean, crisp and unmarred by formatting errors. The only problem with them is that I haven’t been able to embed into my web pages/blogs. So when Katie Knapp sent the agenda for our VA Day of Discovery I wanted to try and figure out how to embed the PDF instead of simply linking to it. I did a quick Google search and came across two resources. I found both of these at The PDF Blog. One resource I was able to use and one was blocked from school as pornography. Who knew that embedding PDF’s was a pornographic act.
Below are the two resources I found from The PDF Blog:
With the new breed of Web 2.0 sites a new way has evolved that is a lot more reliable. Relatively new document sharing sites such as Scribd and Adobe Share (beta) let you upload your PDF files and, once on their site, they provide you with simple code to place in your web page which displays the contents of your PDF files inside a little Flash-based wrapper. From there users can zoom in and out, navigate between pages, and save the file to their local computer. The additional benefit, for some users, is the fact that using these free services reduces bandwidth as (sometimes quite large) PDFs are stored on an external server.
I was not able to access Sribd but maybe you all can try it. You can view and example of it here. I was able to use Adobe Share. It was a pretty neat program. To view how Adobe Share works, visit the VA DEN Day of Discovery Agenda and feel free to register while you’re there.
50 PreK-4 Web Resources
Filed Under (Resources) by Heather Hurley on 01-05-2008
Heather B. Blanton an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher from
All Subjects:
Reading/Language Arts:
Math:
Science:
Social Studies:
Preschool:
Happy Earth Day
Filed Under (Daily Del.icio.us, Resources) by Heather Hurley on 22-04-2008
Check out the results from Google’s Earth Day Search. You can also check out my Del.icio.us Earth Day links.
Cool Tools
Filed Under (Resources) by Heather Hurley on 08-04-2008
I came across two great wiki’s thanks to John Pederson. Shifted Learning Wiki by John Pederson and Jakes Online by David Jakes. John Pederson tweeted two web links to “cool tools”. Both wikis have lots of great content and resources. Please visit their wikis for more information on some cool tools. I love the format that both authors use to describe each tool. The descriptions are very simple and straightforward. The following tools are highlighted. Those with a star at the end are favorites of mine.
