Today students added a blog list and links list to their blogs. They also explored Avatars further.
Blog Lists
On side bar, click add Gadget. Add Blog List
Create Blog List which consists of all classmates blogs
Add each students blog to list
Find each students blog address on Social Media Class Blog (socialmedia3o.blogspot.com)
Rename each students blog – with student first name.
Create Links List
o Link to Social Media Class Blog - socialmedia3o.blogspot.com
o Link to Social Media Class Wiki - ahssocialmedia.wikispaces.com
o Link to Student Wiki Page
o Link to Student Web Tool Box - ahssocialmedia.blogspot.com
o Link to Social Media 3b class - socialmedia3b.blogspot.com
Create links on Wiki Welcome Page
o Link to Social Media Class Blog - socialmedia3o.blogspot.com
o Link to Own Student Blog
o Link to Student Web Tool Box - ahssocialmedia.blogspot.com
Create an animated avatar on MEEZ and post it to your blog and Wiki avatar page. Go to each avatar website and create an avatar - post each on your avatar page. You can put the animated avatar as a post or gadget on your blog.
Meez Avatar
Meez is an online website where you can create a 3-D, animated avatar. Customize your avatar with hair, clothing, accessories, gadgets and even animation - to express/represent yourself. I created an avatar using a computer and one cooking! This is a very FUN website to create an animated avatar. I had fun choosing hair, clothing and playing with all the animations. You do recieve 2000 points when you save your avatar. To earn points you may actually pay for them or play games to earn coins and cash! You also receive gifts - which are worth points! Visit your meez page daily and click Daily Boost - and you will receive points.You can use your Meez just about anywhere you can use a digital image. Here's a few examples:
- Instant Messaging
- Personal & Professional Web Pages
- Online Communities
- Blogs
- Bulletin Boards
- Forums
Meez is the only online virtual playground for teens to create social and multimedia activities to share with friends. Meez is an online community that combines a social virtual world with social networking, gaming, sharing and more. In has an interactive environment, where users can express their personal taste by creating unique avatars and Meez Rooms with virtual goods. Meez is where teens get to share their own interests with one another, from fashion, music, videos and hobbies - nearly anything they love to do in real life - with friends, in a cool virtual hangout.Information from meez.com:
Virtual World — Meez Nation is a virtual world, organized into various neighborhoods where teens can interact with other Meez users. Each 'hood contains different locales, public hangouts and custom-decorated Meez Rooms where users can chat, share music, watch videos, perform in dance contests or just be Meez. Active Meez users watch one million videos per day and typically spend at least an hour per visit to the popular Meez Nation.
Avatars — Meez core Avatar technology allows users to create a digital representation or identity that can be used throughout Meez Nation and exported to other social networks, virtual worlds, gaming sites, instant messaging platforms and mobile devices. Avatars can be customized with physical attributes, clothing, accessories, popular branded items and animations or actions.
Coinz — Meez users can earn and spend virtual Coinz, the currency for Meez's virtual economy, to buy exclusive items such as clothing, hair styles, accessories, decorations for "Roomz," gifts for other Meez users and more.
Games — Meez currently offers users 80+ web-based casual games to choose from, carefully selected for the Meez Nation. Providing game functionality is a natural extension of our social entertainment platform, allowing users to customize and personalize their games using their avatar. Meez users play over 100,000 games per day on Meez.
Meez Forums — Meez forums provide a great way for users to meet and interact with friends by posting messaging on bulletin boards, with lots of topics and subcategories up for discussion.
Homepages — In addition to an avatar and a personal room, Meez also offers users the ability to create their own homepage where they can show off their Meez, send and receive personal messages and manage their friends lists. Users can explore each other's homepages, read profiles and leave messages.
Avatars
An avatar is a digital cartoon-like representation of a real person. Thanks to many free web services, you do not have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or perform some mix and match.
There are several websites that allow you to create avatars. Visit our class wiki site to view websites where you can create avatars.
Students can create avatars to use with their logins in VoiceThread, Google Apps, and other web tools. They can also incorporate their avatar into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles, you can create a cartoon character of yourself. It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles.
There are several websites that allow you to create avatars. Visit our class wiki site to view websites where you can create avatars.
Students can create avatars to use with their logins in VoiceThread, Google Apps, and other web tools. They can also incorporate their avatar into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles, you can create a cartoon character of yourself. It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles.
Get a Voki now!
Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character (avatar). You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone or you
can use the text to type function.
Record up to a 90 second message.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile and in email messages.
Create and customize your speaking character to express yourself, communicate and interact with your friends.
Also very useful to upload your digital voice recorder files to or podcasts!
Features: Change background - can be animated or still. You can upload your own picture for the background. Avatar speaks. Can use your cell phone or microphone to record your own voice.
can use the text to type function.
Record up to a 90 second message.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile and in email messages.
Create and customize your speaking character to express yourself, communicate and interact with your friends.
Also very useful to upload your digital voice recorder files to or podcasts!
Features: Change background - can be animated or still. You can upload your own picture for the background. Avatar speaks. Can use your cell phone or microphone to record your own voice.
KeepVid
KeepVid
Keepvid is a website which enables you to download any video from a website which you normally would not be able to do. It can be used to embed videos in PowerPoint presentations, websites, and more. It is particularly useful when an internet connection is not available, or the website is blocked, such as YouTube. YouTube videos may be downloaded if used in an educational setting.
Keepvid is a website which enables you to download any video from a website which you normally would not be able to do. It can be used to embed videos in PowerPoint presentations, websites, and more. It is particularly useful when an internet connection is not available, or the website is blocked, such as YouTube. YouTube videos may be downloaded if used in an educational setting.
Zamzar
 Have you ever wanted to convert a file? Have you ever wanted to save a document as a .pdf or make changes on .pdf documents? This online tool allows you to convert files to different formats, including conversion of .pdf files to Word documents and Word to .pdfs. You can also convert music, video, and photo files to different formats of your choice. This is a VERY useful tool. Select the file to import, the change to be made, and receive a file in the new format at your email address after registration. The documents are editable after conversion. Images will not be as "editable" as text. The text comes in within a text box, but can be edited. |
Sharing Information
Students will go to http://ahssocialmedia.wikispaces.com/ and add their blog and email addresses under the Social Media 3o link on sidebar. Today we will go over the settings on our blogs - add gadgets and class members blogs to our sidebar.
Blogs
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