Tool3 continued

I just love Bookr. I can see my kids making ther own online books (with some help.) It is so easy and it looks so great. I searched different words for rocks and came across only appropriate pictures, but I wonder if other searches might come up with inapprorpiate ones. I could make a library for the kids after I know their topic, then use a username that they can search instead of tags.
I did make a word cloud but although they look cool, when applied to just a paragraph of text, it doesn't really mean anything. It might be cool to have all the kids add their own words that describe a character, place concept, put it in a word cloud and see what words come up the most(biggest). That would be interesting-kind of like a random graph.
My question now is- How can I make my spell with flickr smaller. I could make it into a jpg and just make it smaller, but int he html I do not see a place to change it's size.

Tool 3

So with all those image tools you would think I would find some I liked. Well,I did but not many. Moatly I did not see a educational use for them except maybe to keep thekids more interested. For kinder, they are too hard for my kids. well some they could do but not the embeddeding part. Well, maybe I am not giving my 5 year olds enough credit, maybe they could after a lot of help??
I tried all of the image editors some were easy to use(spell with flickr, FX, jigsaw, walk of fame,sidewalk) some were more difficult ( mappr.) Many required ( for all I could see) that you upload your images to flickr before you could use the tool ( imapflickr, flikrriver.) On my blog, I posted my example of spell with flikr, sidewalk( image chef), poetry blender (image chef.)
I thought logomaker was really dumb. maybe I missed something.
I think the cartoom maker and bublr could be used to retell in cartoon form but too hard for kinders. maybe we could do it as a small group.

Post 2 Online communities

Online education communities can be a great tool for sharing with students in other places or at times other thant classroom time. It kind of makes me think of the old fashion pen pals with a turbo charge. I have heard it used to relay messages about assignmnets, to do assignments and to just pass on new information. I thing at my school there are still many who do not have internet access to have blogging as an out of school assignement but kids could be given time to work on it during the day or afterschool in the library. In Kindergarten I would use a group blog for either the whole class or small groups. then we can do shared reading /writing while blogging. then share with other kinder groups in our building( or out).

2. What point stood out to you from the commenting advice? Use commenting as a way to teach tech etiquettely . I liked the way both talked about how to not only make better coments but also how to elicit better comments.
3. What five blogs did you select for your comments? so far Jill Sherrill, Maria/Alejandra Palermo,

Tool #1 Just beginning, again!

I am having many technical difficulties- many errors trying to create an account for voki. I still haven't gotten that resolved. But I think I have my girl up. I am trying to figure out how to use blogs in kindergarten or if there is someting else.