LET'S SAY THANKS

My neighbor sent me this web site today and I thought I would share it with you. I am going to have my class try it tomorrow morning. It's called Let's Say Thanks.

"The mission of Let's Say Thanks is to provide a way for individuals across the country to recognize U.S. troops stationed overseas. By submitting a message through this site you have the opportunity to send a free personalized postcard greeting to deployed servicemen and women.

The postcards, depicting patriotic scenes and hometown images, were selected from a pool of entries from children across the country.

All you have to do is click on your favorite design and either select the message that best expresses your sentiment or draft a personal note. The postcards are then printed on the Xerox iGen3^® Digital Production Press and mailed in care packages by military support organization Give2TheTroops^®.

Xerox is committed to helping people across the nation express their gratitude to our troops overseas. The launch of this program is aimed at reminding them how much Americans appreciate their service"

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

WHO THINKS OF THESE THINGS?

This is one of the few video's that I watch and say to myself I wish I could come up with a cool idea like that. It is called Creation.

Enjoy.

ANIMOTO REVISITED

In my last post, I talked about a neat new service called ANIMOTO. I forgot to leave a sample for you to look at. Well, I uploaded some pictures I took during a recent trip of Hawaii to the site and this is what I got.

I was really impressed with how easy and quick it was to do and as you can see, you can embed the videos into your blog.

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ANIMOTO

Wow, I think you are going to like this site. It's called ANIMOTO.

I heard about it from my friend Jim over at A NEW ADVENTURE. It's hard to describe. I think I would call it powerpoint on steriods. Basically you submit your photos, pick some music, and let them put it all together for you.

I like it a lot. Its great for home and family stuff. You can put together a quick show of all the wedding or birthday pictures you just took and have a show to share with people in ten minutes. The price is right. A short 30-60 second show is free. Anything longer is only three bucks.

I certainly can see using it at school. Sharing camp or assembly photos and things like that, but, I'm not sure I want to do that quite yet. I need to find out more about our districts photo sharing policy.

Here's a short Animoto I made for you to enjoy. Check it out and share your thoughts about picture sharing, the classroom, and the internet. (as you can see its not here yet. I have some tech problems to work on.)

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IT'S BEGUN!!!!!

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Here is the latest skinny right from the K12 Online people. I've seen David's kickoff speech. It's great. Talk a look. Click on the above link to access any of these pod casts.

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A WOW FOR DAVID WARLICK

I just got done watching David Warlick's keynote opening speech for the upcoming K12 ONLINE Conference. Wow, you need to listen to it. He put into words a lot of things I have been thinking and he does a lot of things I would like to do, not only with my students but with tchnology. If this is any indication of what the conference is going to be like than i really can't wait for the fun to began.

They have put about 20 two minute teasers up for you to listen to. It will give an idea of what's coming up.

Check it out and let me know what you think.