Make Beliefs Comix

www.makebeliefscomix.com/

I found this sight on The Techie Teacher.  It is limited on the characters, but it allows you to write talking bubbles.  Here is the one I created.  I didn't want to forget about it, because it looks like it might be fun for students.

Vocaroo

Vocaroo

https://vocaroo.com/

This is an online way for students to record their voice and upload it to other things.  I think students can attach it to an email.

Edpuzzle

https://edpuzzle.com/

This looks like you can take any video, you own or from the web, and make them interactive by adding your own voice and questions.  You can make your own videos and upload them, or take them from the web, ie. You Tube. 'You Tube Extensions' lets you edit the videos. You can also track how many times students are viewing the videos.  Under the "What's New at Edpuzzle?" I found info on 'Live Mode' that lets kids respond to questions from the video, individually, from their own devices, as a live whole class.

Nerdy Book Club

Just a site I found that I don't want to forget about.  It gives book reviews, and it's an opportunity to submit your review.

Book Creator

A book publish site where students write their books, and publish digitally.  I haven't had a chance to explore it yet, but I didn't want to forget about it.

Play Postit

This is an online tool that I don't want to forget.

According to their sight, "Play Postit is a platform to create and share interactive video lessons. Instructors begin with any online video (from YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy, TED, etc.), and add their own questions and interactions to hold students accountable to the content."

I haven't fully investigated this tool yet, but I quickly watched one of their videos that highlighted some of the features, such as asking written questions during a video, so I could have a basic understanding of how it works.

As you can see, I selected a reading of the book Charlotte's Web. I can stop the video of the reading and ask the students a question which appears off to the left side of the screen. Students write in their answer and select 'continue' which starts the video again, or in this case, the reading again.

Now, my video just shows a still of the book cover and you can hear the audio of the reader reading the book, but this can be used for any video.

Google Draw

I want to share how I was able to turned an old postcard from the turn of the last century into a larger 4 x 6 postcard and a gift tag that I can use today.

First, I scanned two different postcards at the same time, laying the two images together, one above the other.  This took a little more time to edit, so in the future, I would make a separate scan of each image.

Next, I imported, edited, and enlarge the image in Google Draw, but I was also able to crop and edit it in Windows Photo.

The cool thing about using Google Draw would be the ability to change the image into a circle.

Like this:

Now, even though you see this as a circle, the image is on a standard 8 x 11 piece of paper, so the cursor is farther over than the circle image, like the example above on the right that was captured using Jing. 

Here is a step by step of how I accomplished the change.

First, upload an image.  Click on crop and select area to crop.

Click crop again to get the image without the extra image surrounding it.

Under crop, you can select different shapes.

 

Click crop to view the image within the new shape.

Click crop again, and you have the image in the new shape, without the extra area you have cropped out.

The only issue is that I don't believe that this image, a circle, will transfer to other documents, such as Shutterfly, unless it's turned into a JPG file, which is possible as an option under 'download' under 'file.'

Here is a video using Screencast-o-matic explaining how I was able to crop and change the shape of the image.