BP3_Rise_Picfull

For those of you interested in photography, you should see my classmate Selena Carruthers site and ET review of http://www.picfull.com.  See how she manipulates pictures as a unique way to express herself.

Selena’s ET Review of http://www.picfull.com includes

• highlights of the Free and easy to navigate interface
• 18 different photo editing effects and tools to use for social media sites or formal projects
• 6 easy to follow steps to editing your own pics
• examples of her own pictures she manipulated and edited to enhance her photos with a unique creative touch.

Visit Selena’s ET Review and Blog about a great photo editing tool found at http://www.picfull.com by clicking the link below.

http://resourcesforeducators.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/bp2-picfull/

BP2_Wix

Wix  

Wix is a free web tool for creating easy, fast, and customizable websites for showcasing your classroom in action and fostering communication with parents, providing a service for your business, or  just for showcasing a gallery of your favorite personal pics. This web tool allows users to publish their own professional looking website with no html coding skills need.

Features

• Its completely FREE to design and publish your own website
• Easy click and drop HTML editor
• No coding or HTML expertise needed
• Free  web hosting
• Create FREE Flash and HTML 5 Websites
• Upload your own images
• Choose from 100’s of free content such as  widgets, music, pics, galleries and more
• Customize your site from scratch or a template
• View FREE demo videos or join Live Webinars
• Get found easily on Google with free and easy to create Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options
• Go Mobile by creating a FREE mobile version of your website
• Add a Blog
• Create Facebook templates to connect with others in your social network

My Story and My Motivation For Using This Tool

I love photography and have been wanting to create a personal website to start a digital photo journal and scrapbook of all my favorite pictures. Its  easier than I expected and is a tool I am motivated in using while implementing my action research project on integrating digital photography in the classroom to enhance the overall process of learning in an educational environment.

View My Sample Published Website and Customized Creation

Click on the link below to view my  personal Photography website I created at www.wix.com to start hosting a gallery of my pictures I have passionately taken by capturing the beauty of nature in my own community and special moments with my family.

http://cwilson2912.wix.com/christinawilson

BP4_Rise Commenting and Linking

• Educators, can you imagine your written and spoken words come to life so your students can actually hear and see them?
• Are you looking for creative and fun ways to  enhance your  communication skills while capturing and engaging your students and audiences attention?
• Do you want to encourage your students to explore their own creative writing skills and imagination with virtual tools through storytelling?

Check out educator reviews on Paula’s blog for a cool tool called Xtranormal.  My classmate Paula found a great way to add a novel experience into your day that communicates any simple written message through both audio and visual way’s too.   See Paula’s review of this virtual education tool,  watch her video she created to relay a memorable message to her music students, and follow her simple steps to creating your own animation video for your classroom.

Here is a link to Paula’s blog so you can check out more about Xtranomal.

http://paulamichele.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/bp2_xtranormal/?blogsub=confirmed#blog_subscription-2

BP1:iGoogle-PLE

Here is a screenshot of the Home page on my iGoogle Personal Learning Environment (PLE). I added a few gadgets on this page to keep me balanced in my home, personal, and spiritual life while maintaining direction and action towards accomplishing my career goals. I added the gadget “Inspirational Quotes and Pictures” to remind me that photography has brought  much inspiration and has taught me to realize I can recognize the beauty of life all around me when I slow down and capture the presence of a moment . I also added “Motivational Life Quotes” by Jim Garrison to infuse positive affirmations into my day and keep me moving forward towards my goals even when obstacles sometimes get in the way.

My second tab and screenshot connects me to my educational journey at Full Sail University while pursuing a master’s in Educational Media Design and Technology.  Each link I created has immediately improved my organizational skills, and helped me quickly access everything I need to be successful when preparing to complete a fast track program with efficiency and flowing manageability. Saving time is a must in order to balance my home life and educational life. Using iGoogle to organize my digital world has made pursuing  this journey much more possible than I presumed.

 

My third tab and screen shot is a Google Personalized Tab that was shared from my instructor, Rena Hanaway. Sharing her personal ETC tab taught me how to  access and communicate valuable information that can be useful for teaching and learning with others through a collaborative and collective  educational community interested in enhancing the entire educational process of diverse learning and communication with ET.  I will continue to add additional links and share valuable resources to other fellow FSO EMDT students to stay connected and help share knowledge,  awareness, valuable links that provide easy access to learning, teaching and creating  in a collaborative and social community of educators. I will continue to add valuable time saving and management tabs and links to the this igoogle PLE as I continue my journey as an educator and  FSO EMDT student.