Picture Trail

Here is the latest new tool you can put in your learning tool bag. It's just one of about 35 effects you can do with you classroom photo's. I have just started using this on my class bog and already the kids want more.

It's from Picture Trail. Picture Trail is one of the many online picture album places you can join nowadays to store, view, and print your pictures. It's the only one I found so far that has a bunch of different ways to share your pictures. You can put them on a rotating cube, a fancy sideshow, or any one of a dozen or two different presentation models.

I am going to start putting up some pictures of my class on my blog every couple days using Picture Trail. I am already thinking of all the different ways to integrate it with reading, writing, and social studies.

TUN3R

Ok, this is really cool. You have to give this one a try. Let's say you are sitting at your computer and you say to yourself "I'd like to listen to some music while I sit here at my computer." There are hundreds of sites to go to. My old favorite (until I discovered TUN3R) was SKY.FM. It's easy and free to use. Then I happened upon TUN3r. It's free internet radio with a touch of past.

Here's their mission statement.

Our goal is connect listeners to new Internet radio 'stations' in a fun, interactive way. We'd like to recapture some of the idle pleasure provided by tuning an analog radio dial.

Give it a try. It is simple to use and a lot of fun. Hit the comment button and let me know what you think.

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