During this EVO 2010 I have also enrolled for another session: Digital material preparation techniques and resources for TESOL professionals.
It is taught on Moodle, with weekly chats on TappedIn. I missed the first chat because I failed to check the platform, believing I would get a notification, but apparently my registration was incomplete, or something of the sort. I must confess I have not quite adapted to Moodle yet.
The Preparation Checklist instructed us to:
Join TappedIn
Become a member of the following free Internet resources:
Ask500People, polling the world www.ask500People.com
Myna, online audio editor aviary.com/tools/myna
Scholastic Mini-Dictionary, definition generator wordwizard.scholastic.com/minidictionary
ScreenToaster, online screen capture www.screentoaster.com
VoiceThread, media discussion www.voicethread.com
Visit the links below to ensure you can view them
Dafont, font repository www.dafont.com
Docstoc, professional document sharing www.docstoc.com
Google Translate, language translation translate.google.com
LexTutor, data-driven learning www.lextutor.ca
Lorem Ipsum, place holder text generator www.lipsum.com
Microsoft Office Online, office document resources office.microsoft.com
PDPhoto, copyright free photos www.pdphoto.org
Photobucket, photo sharing resource www.photobucket.com
Picnik, image-photo editor www.picnik.com
Project Gutenburg, copyright free texts www.gutenberg.org
SpellingCity, activities generator www.spellingcity.com
TeacherTube, education video sharing www.teachertube.com
Vocabgrabber, word list generator www.visualthesaurus.com
Voki, talking avatar creator www.voki.com
Wikipedia, encyclopedia www.wikipedia.com
Writeboard, wiki www.writeboard.com
Zamzar, online file conversion www.zamzar.com
Week one has been about introductions, getting to know the environments (including the Moodle wiki) and working with images.
I first tried Picnik, and created this:
Our tutor recommended these other Online Photo Manipulation Tools:
Fun Photo Box http://funphotobox.com Specializing in gag effects.
Image Chef http://www.imagechef.com. Includes video and text art.
PhotoShop Express https://www.photoshop.com Online version of the industry standard software application.
Photo505 http://www.photo505.com/. More digital FX for photos.
Photofunia http://photofunia.com/. And more of the same.
So I played with ImageChef
And with Photofunia:
This has really been a lot of fun! I even gave Voki a try, but, of course, it won’t embed in WP, and does not even give me a link!
