Claymation

Today in class we explored claymation.  On this website you can make yourself out of clay.  I made a normal person and in honor of St. Patrick's Day I made a leprechaun.

Click here to clay yourself.

Blog Brain Games

Today I went on my classmates blogs and looked at the games they created.  If you scroll down on my blog on the right side you can see my classmates blog links.  I would recommend Tate's blog or Andrew's blog.  Tate's hangman is tough because it is about anything and everything.  Andrew's hangman is fun because it is about college basketball teams.  I would also say to go to Morgan's for her barnyard word search or Westin's for his scientific hangman.  Sydney also has a fun color word search. 

To create your own games click here go to proprofs. 

Brain Games

Today in class we explored word and brain games.  I made three different games.  Play my college basketball hangman and my two crosswords.  I did all three of these on proprofs.  On propfrofs you can make anything from hangman to word searches.

Click here to go to proprofs.

Big 12 Locations crossword puzzle game » crossword maker

Avatar

Today in class we explored five avatar sites.  The first was Build Yourself Wild.  In this one you choose male or female and then you can add odd animal parts on to your person.  This one was fun for a quirky website, but it would not bring in business.  Next, I explored South Park Studio.  In this one you could make your favorite South Park character, but I chose to make star soccer player Lionel Messi.  The third site was Dopple Me.  This was a fun little website where you can make cartoon people.  Unfortunately in order to create an extraordinary person you must be a member.  In this website I made an evil undercover grandma.  Then, I explored OSOQ on this one I created a Scottish Jedi.  This is also a fun website to make an odd avatar.  Finally, I explored Be Funky.  This website is the most professional website.  You could make a very professional looking avatar for you business.  All these sites were fun, but I would only make a business avatar on Be Funky.

Click here to go to Build Yourself Wild.
Click here to go to South Park Studios.
Click here to go to Dopple Me.
Click here to go to OSOQ.
Click here to go to Be Funky.

Google Earth and Latitude

Today in class we explored Google Earth and some other Google map applications like Panoramio and Latitude.  My favorite application was Latitude.  Latitude is an application where if you're an experienced Googler can find your friends.  Panoramio however was my least favorite because it didn't really allow you to see what you were looking at you could only see pictures that people had posted of it.  In the middle was Google Earth.  Google Earth was cool, but I found it hard to use.  All in all they were all usable applications.  Here is a picture of Google Earth.

We also explored Google Offers the consumer side.  This was cool because you could see some cool deals in a big city near you.  Unfortunately Google Offers didn't have offers for small towns only big cities.  Here is a picture of some Google Offers.

Click here to go to Panoramio.
Click here to go to Latitude.
You will have to download Google Earth.
Click here to go to Google Offers.

iGoogle

iGoogle is your own personal sight that we explored on Monday.  iGoogle is your own personal sight were you can add anything from games, to tips of the day, to even calendars.  My favorite gadget that I downloaded was Poke the Penguin.  Another few cool gadgets I downloaded were some ESPN news and score gadgets.  Some gadgets we had to download for school were the Dictionary, Gmail, and Wikipedia.  Another cool thing is that you can get a bookmarks bar.  You can easily bookmark you top sites.  This gadget can replace Symbaloo.  Here is a picture of Poke the Penguin.

Click here to go to iGoogle.

Google Maps

On Wednesday our class explored Google Maps.  Google Maps are different from regular maps because you can view them on satellite mode, and you can type in directions.  The map will tell you how to get to your destination, what forms of transportation you can use, and how long it will take for every mode.  I have two pictures of the Willis Tower in Chicago.  One of them is in satellite mode and the other in maps mode.


Click here to go to Google Maps.