Web 2.0 Resources

Glogster

Personally, I felt like Glogster was very difficult to use. It takes a long time to understand how to navigate the site. I found that disappointing because I had heard positive feedback on the site, but I had never personally use it. I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy, but it took me hours to try and add my assigned data to my glog. I was still not really satisfied with my page after I'd done my best.

http://miriamt.edu.glogster.com/technology-education-4017

Animoto

I liked the simplicity of Animoto. However, I found there was a maximum of 7 slides without the full version. My animoto ended up with 7 pictures when I originally planned on having text between the photos. There was also a short maximum on the caption list which I felt was not necessary

http://animoto.com/play/nQNn0iLBITOFk2HDXOjySQ

Free Choice

I chose www.bighugelabs.com as my free choice. I browsed all the other sites briefly before choosing this one and liked the basic aspects of this site most. I view myself interested in teaching younger children most and I felt the other sites were too advanced and this one was most kid-friendly. I have attached three pictures from three of the games I played.


This picture is from the jigsaw puzzle maker game.

This game changes the color of a photo and creates a tile image.

This game allows you to add comic strips to photos. I will have to learn how to change the size of the caption later. 

All photos used in this blog were also used in my animoto and were royalty free. Most even contained the copy-written information at the bottom of the photo.

Below is the image of my concept map.

Welcome

Hey, if you have stumbled upon my blog by accident take a second to look around. You may like it here. What do you think? If not, you can quickly escape by clicking the red "x" in the upper right corner and there will not be any hard feelings :)

However, if you happen to be a student at the University of West Alabama and taking the course ED 505 you are exactly where you need to be). (Please do not exit classmates.)

My name is Miriam Twilley. I am 22 years old. I live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and I have been here since I was 16. That is when I started attending college at the University of Alabama and received my Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education. I work at Tuscaloosa Head Start as a 4-year-old teacher. However, there are some 3 and 5 year-olds in my class. My blog will probably be more of the extended version of my twitter account @MiriamTwilley. Twitter tends to cap posts at 140 characters and I'm well beyond that.

I hope this blog gives you a new perspective, a tiny view of my world, and is not sooo boring you hate that you are obligated to read it!