Bitstrips

Bitstrips allows you to create and share your own comic strips online. You can bitsrip anything from funny jokes to politics and the best part is you don't have to be an amazing drawer to do it! Bitstrips is a creative, user friendly, fun way to animate your stories online.

I feel there is a real opportunity to use bitstrips in the classroom as an ENGAGING educational tool (bet you'd never thought you'd see those two words together!). By introducing Bitstrips into your lessons you are allowing children to engage and develop skills in:

• Technology and Enterprise- creating meaningful comic strips using a which can be shared with the world,
• The Arts- creative thought and design,
• English- writing dialogue,
• and much more....

It is also a fun way to visually display classroom rules and alike. The possibilities are endless with this tool!

Wiki Wordle

This is a word cloud containing words about Wikis...

Wikis

Previous to starting my studies in the 'Using Computers' unit I had no idea what a Wiki was...Wow have I learnt a lot in the past few weeks or what!?

These editable, collaborative, online documents allow you to create your own website easily and quickly. Wikis can be viewed and editied from any computer, anywhere, anytime by anyone (providing the creator of the wiki page invites you to join their enterage of followers).

Wikis generally focus around one topic and invite others to join in on blogs, adding videos and pictures and so on.

The only downfall I have found with Wikis is their lack of credibility. As these documents can be editied by anyone there is a possibility that some of the infomation contained within a Wiki page is false or misleading. Thus Wiki pages cannot be considered a reliable source of information. Nevertheless they do provide you with interesting topics, comments, links, pictures, videos and alike.

I still have a lot to learn about Wikis but they appear to provide a source of endless opportunities for online document creation and collaborative learning.

Blog Wordle Cloud

After viewing a number of Blogs I created this Wordle Cloud with words that are related to blogs.