How to create your own personalized blog backgrounds

Have you ever wondered how to make creative personalized blog backgrounds that reflect the talents of the students in your class? Then this is the instructional video for you. Blog makeovers are fun to do and they give your blog a fresh appealing look. Have fun making your own blog backgrounds.

Screen Recording 91 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

How to make student blogs

This video is more for me - the E-Learning Co-ordinator. As I don't make blogs every day, I can easily forget the process, as there are many steps involved. It is a useful video to refer to.

Screen Recording 88 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

How to copy work from students individual blogs and add it to your class blog

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Screen Recording 86 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Wordle: Olympics

This is my Wordle on the Olympics

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Screen Recording 82 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Google Spreadsheets Pie Chart: Room 5's favourite fruit

The favourite fruit in Room 5 are apples.


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Screen Recording 80 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Using Google Spreadsheets -Column Graph

KFC was the most popular takeaway. The least popular was Carl Juniors

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Screen Recording 76 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Using Google Presentations

Check out my presentation on my trip to Motat



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Screen Recording 75 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Using Popplet as a Brainstorming tool

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Screen Recording 71 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Using Screenr

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Screen Recording 67 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Using Jing

The Instructional video Screen Recording 63 from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Google Sites Screenshot Movie.

This is my movie I made on how I used the Room 5 Google site to assist my class in making Tapa Cloths in Art.
To view my Room 5 site, click on this link

Celebrating Voice: The Snow Limo-using the Flip Camera

This is the Snow Limo I went on when I was in Vancouver. I had a great time going down it.

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Celebrating Voice: How to make a Voice Thread

This is what I did over the holidays.








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Celebrating Voice: Using the Webcam, By Joy

Here is a small video recording of my holiday.

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Celebrate voice: How to make a podcast using Garage Band and Podomatic, By Joy

This is my holiday story.

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Untitled from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Reflecting and Evaluating: Making comments

Always wanted to know how to make comments. This movie will show you step by step how to make comments.

Untitled from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Celebrate Voice: Octopus at the Museum

This voice recording programme from brainshark.com is very easy to use and I would recommend using it with children who are fluent readers. There is less downloading time involved, but it does not allow you to edit recordings.

Here is a slide of an octopus.



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Fun with Photos: Using Smilebox.

Click on this link to download Smilebox.com

Check out my Slideshow.

Customize a free slideshow design

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Fun with Photos: Using Photobooth: My holiday picture

This is me on holiday.

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Fun with Photos: Using Roxio Photoshow

Here is an example of using Roxio Photoshow

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Fun with Photos: Using Animoto

Try our slideshow maker at Animoto.

Animoto is a great Web 2.0 tool to use as you can upload photos and videos onto it. From there it makes a slideshow that you can put onto your blogs. It also allows you to use your music or use their built in music to accompany your photos and videos. A great programme to use.

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Fun with Photos: How to insert a photograph onto your blog

Class of 2011.

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Welcome to the Exploring E-Learning Blog

Welcome to the Exploring E-Learning blog. The purpose of this blog is to show you step by step how to create digital learning objects (DLO's), with your class and posting them onto your class / individual blog/s. The first post focuses on how to post a photograph onto your class blog. This is the first project for this year.