If you’ve taken the Digital Camera class from UEN you’ve heard us talk about a great little company called MOO. They specialize in printing various products using your digital photos. Now I know there are a lot of different companies that do the same thing, but MOO has a bunch of products the others don’t. From stickers to minicards, MOO has some incredible stuff. Which leads us to their latest product announcment : business cards. For $21.00 you can purchase 50 full size business cards with your photos on front, and your contact info on the back. Check it out!
In case you thought there wasn’t anymore more you could possibly do with your digital images, there’s this:
You can now print photos on M&Ms.
That’s right. Print your digital images onto the shiny shell of your favorite M&M.
Not only can you upload your pictures, you can also create your own sayings or phrases to print as well. For $12.99 you’ll receive a 7oz. bag of the delicious treat, branded with 2 separate photos and 2 distinct phrases. What will they think of next?!
How many of you out there think that Physics is fun? I know for many of us physics may bring back bad memories from high school, full of complicated equations and formulas. Phun is a Master’s thesis project by Emil Ernerfeldt and this little application may just change your perception of the world of physics. Go to http://www.phun.at/ to download this application.
“Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.”
I know many of you out there haven’t head of Wimba yet. That should change when you come back to school this Fall. Wimba is a distance education software company that has developed a series of tools to help instructors reach their students through the Internet. In yesterday’s Faculty Lounge, Tim demonstrated how to create a podcast, a voice message board, sending voice emails, and how to conduct a live phone call through Wimba’s Voice Tools. Imagine being able to talk to your students through the Web!
I’m sitting in a meeting where the idea of social networking has come up. While many of us are new to this idea, sharing information with others online, there is a lot of power to this growing trend. Check out this great video of the impact Google Maps had during the San Diego wildfires.
What are your thoughts about the ability to share information online and answer the big question: SO WHAT?
For those of us who use PC’s, Google’s Picasa is a fantastic FREE photo editing tool. With all the options for editing, creativity, web hosting, and printing that Picasa offers, it’s amazing that there can be anything “new” in the program. Well, I found something for you.
Lets say you want to make a photo seating chart of your classes, or you want to have some really small, thumbnail size versions of your pictures, maybe for a quiet time, at your desk matching game for students. There is a way to get these small sized images from your Picasa files.
First, select all the images you want. If you are selecting from more than one folder, make sure you click the hold button to keep all your selections in the tray
Next, click on the Folder option and select Print Contact Sheet. This will take you right to the print menu where you can see a preview of your image selections before you print.
Once you’ve printed the contact sheet, the possibilities are pretty endless. Make stickers or confetti, laminate and put magnets on the back to move children’s pictures around a work chart for the classroom, and much, much more.
If you don’t have Picasa yet and would like to download it, just go to www.picasa.com and get the program for free.
It’s not often that you can witness a life changing event from your computer, but Saturday was one of those days. Sponsored by TED, Pangea Day was a worldwide film festival designed to bring the world together. For 4 hours we watched films, speakers, and musicians from all corners of the Earth. Their goal - to help us realize that our differences are minimal compared to the vastness of our similarities. The films depict those emotions that we all share: love, despair, joy, and hope. I hope you’ll take a moment to watch some of the films or to watch the highlights from the festival.
If you teach elementary school or foreign language at any level, you really need to check out Childtopia.com. It has some extremely high quality online learning games and activities. If you teach Spanish or French, this site will be especially useful. All the games and activities come in those two languages, as well as in English, Basque, and Catalan. Many of the games are perfect for foreign language study.
In addition to the games, Childtopia also has reading and listening comprehension activities that are fantastic. Childtopia reads a book to the students (with audio, pictures, animations, sound effects, etc.), and then the students must answer questions about the story.
Although Childtopia does sell copies of their games on CD-ROM, all of the games and activities are totally free when accessed on the Internet.
June 27, 2008 
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