Google Earth

Google earth is a website which lets you see anywhere on earth via satellite imagery. Google earth shows maps, terrain, 3D buildings, galaxies in outer space and the canyons of the ocean. It allows you to explore the world from the comfort of your living room. Google earth also has the option to ass affects to your map such as traffic, roads, weather, 3d buildings and more.

The first thing i did on Google earth was entered my address, which then showed my neighborhood and i could even see my house. I then Googled Los Angeles in America as i was interested in what would come up. I then went to the layers section and added traffic lights and roads, this caused the map to change and it now showed all the main roads and traffic lights.

Class maker

Class Marker is an online quiz maker for online testing, mostly used by teachers to test their students. Class maker has some advantages as it is a good way to save time and get test results conveniently and fast. Class Marker has a number of different features such as the option to add multiple choice, multiple response, free text, true/false, punctuation and essay questions all in the one test. it also provides an easy way for the teachers to see and mark their students results. I chose to create a multiple choice test consisting of 10 questions about animals. ClassMarker is very good method of testing students. My test is located at this link -http://www.classmarker.com/teacher/edit_test.php?test_id=55738.

Flickr

Flickr is a website which allows users to upload, organize, store, search, and share photos online. Flickr also encourages interaction between users by allowing them to mark each other as contacts, where they then can comment on and add tags to each others photos. First you must upload your photos then you can edit them by using effects like removing red eye, cropping or adding text. There are some more activities that you can do with your photos such as make your own cards, photo albums, scrap books, calenders and slide shows.

PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, it allows you to create slide show presentations. It is utilised by many different people for many different reasons such as lectures in a lecture, students in oral presentations and similar activities. People have found the PowerPoint tool to be very effective and helpful.

As a teenager i have grown up surrounded by technology therefore i already had quite a bit of experience with PowerPoint. In the PowerPoint i created i was able to use different tools to improve my slide show, these include adding pictures, changing the layout and background, adding sounds and movies and also inserting charts and tables.

I added timers on all of my slides in order to allow them them to automatically change slides . I also added different animation schemes and transitions to show creativeness in the slides and for a visual effect.

Voki Avatars

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I created this voki avatar through the voki website which allows you to sign up for free where you can then create your own voki avatar. You are allowed to select a character then accessories your characters looks, clothes, back ground and voice. You can use these personalised speaking avatars on your profile, blog or even in email messages.

I believe Voki avatars are an effective learning tool as it engages the students by allowing them to have fun and experiment with their very own voki avatar and provide help for those who may lack in areas of theory and prefer visual stimulus.

e.portfolio

An e.portfolio also known as an electronic portfolio is an online submission of a person’s learning movement. e.Portfolios are a must for students’ learning as it helps them by recognising, recording, reflecting, presenting, planing and assessing their learning development and accomplishments.

I set up my e.portfolio via the Mahara website. Majority of people used the netspot website which required them to pay a $5 joining fee but I didn’t go through the Netspot website like the others had, instead I googled ‘Mahara’, entered the site, folloed the prompts and activated my account from there.

WIKIS

WIKI is a website where everyone or only invited members can share their ideas and opinions with each other. There is also the option to edit or delete the posts to fix errors. I choose to create my WIKI through the WetPaint.com website which u can access via http://aprilscown.wetpaint.com/.

Once i visited the WetPaint site first had to name my site and customize my URL, this didn't take very long at all. I then had to choose what my site would be about, i decided to base my site around movies. I chose movies as i thought it is something almost everyone can relate to as everyone is bound to have watched a movie at some time. I also thought because it had such a wide range it would allow people to comment and suggest some of their own favourite movies.

I believe that the WIKI technology is very helpful for people who have to work in pairs of teams as all their information and ideas would be on one page that they can all access. They can then expand on each others ideas, read or edit them. An advantage of WIKI is that it allows the students to share all their information online, therefore saving them time by them not having to call or meet in order to share their informaion.