I decided to try Zoho Show. It was quite easy to build a slide show. I liked that you could choose a variety of backgrounds, fonts and sizes. All were easy to select. What frustrated me was the inability to post a picture in my show. It was also frustrating to find that Clip Art selections were very limited.
Since I couldn't insert a picture, I visited the help button. It was not much help. The explanation was rather vague I thought. At any rate I did everything it asked and the download failed, time and time again. So I'm guessing I didn't do it right.....
I did make a slide show stating my frustrations with Zoho Shoe here :
http://show.zoho.com/View.do?P_ID=293474000000005001&P_STIME=0&TP=true&displayall=true&THEME=eighty_greens&USER=pndmcintyre&DOC=Thing%2013
It's not pretty but it's mine.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thing 12 Productivity Anywhere You Have a Browser
I checked out 30 Boxes It's your life. http://30boxes.com/welcome.php I liked this online calendar. It was very easy to use. It threw me a bit when I diligently typed in all my families birthdays and then scrolled back to August 1st and nothing was there. It does not back date. If you've already lived that date it will next appear in August of 2009. I did have a little difficulty deleating an item. Some of the things did deleat and one did not. I will have to play around with it a bit and see what I'm doing wrong. It only has 3 choices of background colors...not a lot in my opinion and none of them green...so that was a dissapointment.
You can share your calendar with family or friends which I really liked. I could make a birthday calendar and send it out to my father-in-law so he will be able to send out cards to the family on time. I might do with with all my family. We could update the birthday years that we don't all have as well as other important family events such as anniversaries or holiday parties.
I thought it would be great to put all of the school activities on the calendar so no matter where you are you can access the calendar and see when you need to be where. This would be especially helpful with all the IEP's I need to do during the school year. The calendar will automatically email you one day in advance of the event so that you are always in the know.
You can share your calendar with family or friends which I really liked. I could make a birthday calendar and send it out to my father-in-law so he will be able to send out cards to the family on time. I might do with with all my family. We could update the birthday years that we don't all have as well as other important family events such as anniversaries or holiday parties.
I thought it would be great to put all of the school activities on the calendar so no matter where you are you can access the calendar and see when you need to be where. This would be especially helpful with all the IEP's I need to do during the school year. The calendar will automatically email you one day in advance of the event so that you are always in the know.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thing 11 Zoho
Well, I did manage to post from Zoho to my Blog. However, I do not see how to edit my misspelled words. Also I notide that my little comment boxes are not appearing. I also do not like the looks of my post. I think I'd have to practice with it a bit to get it to look better than it currently does to meet my perfectionist ways.
Do I think that Zoho will replace MS Office someday? Well, yes, I do think it's possible. As fast as technology changes nothing is impossible. I do think that some people will just stick with that with which they are familiar and not branch out into new applications. I think that it will be the younger generation who will make the switch and the older generation dragging their feet along afterwards if they are forced to.
Do I think that Zoho will replace MS Office someday? Well, yes, I do think it's possible. As fast as technology changes nothing is impossible. I do think that some people will just stick with that with which they are familiar and not branch out into new applications. I think that it will be the younger generation who will make the switch and the older generation dragging their feet along afterwards if they are forced to.
playing with zoho
Playing around with Zoho Writer
subscript probalby shouldn't go here right?
The first thing I notice about Zoho is that the fonts are not in alphabetical order. So what order are they in? Is it most popular or what? I like using comic sans but it falls under small font....so I'm guessing it won't let me type comic sans in font larger than 10 pt because every time I try it swithces to veranda.
It is very easy to highlight. I like that. However after you highlight, how do you turn it off? I'm not having any luck yet turning it off. I like that I can add this comment box. That was pretty neat.
Well I'm not sure if this actually turned off the highlighter or just changed the background color to white. And quite possibly I didn't actually highlight correctly. I used the style scroll down key to hit highlight. To get this white background I clicked on the actual highlight key and changed the background color to white. It did what I wanted it to do so I'm wondering if it actually matters?
It looks like increasing or decreasing the indent is pretty easy to do. I don't think it's particularly easy with Microsoft Word.
I always wonder why this feature is here? I've never had a reason to use it. Perhaps when you're doing a rough draft? Oh yes I see you can highlight and activate this feature...pretty cool.
While I haven't spent a lot of time here on Zoho, I think I do like it.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Thing 10 Create Your Own Wiki
OMG!
I can not tell you how I have agonized over creating this Wiki. What a dork! (as my grandchildren would say) It was amazingly simple. Here is my Wiki http://normac.pbwiki.com/Mrs-Mac%27s-test-page. I made it at PBwiki.com because they have this contest going and you can earn/win a free upgrade with the back to school challenge
http://www.backtoschoolchallenge.com/ By just creating my Wiki I earned 20 points. When you edit your Wiki you earn more points and on and on until you've upgraded your service. So that's my challenge....upgrade my Wiki.
I can not tell you how I have agonized over creating this Wiki. What a dork! (as my grandchildren would say) It was amazingly simple. Here is my Wiki http://normac.pbwiki.com/Mrs-Mac%27s-test-page. I made it at PBwiki.com because they have this contest going and you can earn/win a free upgrade with the back to school challenge
http://www.backtoschoolchallenge.com/ By just creating my Wiki I earned 20 points. When you edit your Wiki you earn more points and on and on until you've upgraded your service. So that's my challenge....upgrade my Wiki.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Thing 9 Wiki
I was very interested in Wiki's and was hoping to find more about use with special education students in elementary schools.
On cool cat teacher blog http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-wikis-podcasts-and-laptops-help.html#links I found a link called How wikis, podcasts, and laptops help students with learning disabilities which caught my attention. I learned about a Microsoft program called Microsoft One Note http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/FX100487701033.aspxhich I will need to explore. The blog said that students love this because it allows them to type everything here and then export it to word. Of course this isn't a Wiki but I got there from a Wiki link...but when I tried to go back to that link I wasn't able to.
I also explored TeachersFirst: Wiki walk-Through http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm I saw the suggestion to make a Wiki on Thanksgiving Traditions and thought that we could make a Wiki about the Pilgrims to show to our parents and other special guests at our Thanksgiving feast this November. All I have to do in convince the other special ed teachers and the computer tech to let us do this. I think it could be fun.
I also visited http://booksforchildren.pbwiki.com/Books+for+Children. I love this Wiki. I found it on the PBWiki site. I'm thinking PB stands for peanut butter. Anyway Books for Children is a listing of children's books. Thus far it is not very long but you can see the potential for it to bloom. I like that children could be writing reviews of books that they have read although it dosn't exactly invite children to do that. Currently it appears that only college profs have written reviews but who knows?
I confess that I really have no idea how to make a Wiki and will need to go onto the site and physically do this to learn how to do this but I think I'm up for the challenge
On cool cat teacher blog http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-wikis-podcasts-and-laptops-help.html#links I found a link called How wikis, podcasts, and laptops help students with learning disabilities which caught my attention. I learned about a Microsoft program called Microsoft One Note http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/FX100487701033.aspxhich I will need to explore. The blog said that students love this because it allows them to type everything here and then export it to word. Of course this isn't a Wiki but I got there from a Wiki link...but when I tried to go back to that link I wasn't able to.
I also explored TeachersFirst: Wiki walk-Through http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm I saw the suggestion to make a Wiki on Thanksgiving Traditions and thought that we could make a Wiki about the Pilgrims to show to our parents and other special guests at our Thanksgiving feast this November. All I have to do in convince the other special ed teachers and the computer tech to let us do this. I think it could be fun.
I also visited http://booksforchildren.pbwiki.com/Books+for+Children. I love this Wiki. I found it on the PBWiki site. I'm thinking PB stands for peanut butter. Anyway Books for Children is a listing of children's books. Thus far it is not very long but you can see the potential for it to bloom. I like that children could be writing reviews of books that they have read although it dosn't exactly invite children to do that. Currently it appears that only college profs have written reviews but who knows?
I confess that I really have no idea how to make a Wiki and will need to go onto the site and physically do this to learn how to do this but I think I'm up for the challenge
Thing 8 Locate Feeds That Interest You
Feed Icons - I never knew what these were before now even though I'd seen them on many links.
Blogline Search tool- I decided to look up Plimoth Plantation since we had recently toured there. I found some very intersting blogs that other people had posted of their journey. It was interesting to look at it through someone elses eyes.
Edublog took me to best individual edublogs of 2007 and then to Ewan McIntosh's blog Everything You Wanted to Know about YouTube which was very informative. I recommend you all check it out. I also watched the how to Soulja Boy video and now the song makes a whole lot more sense to me. I thought I could spend quite a bit of time here looking for information.
Feedster was not accessable for what ever reason.
Topix.net was all about Sarah Palin and Hurricane Gustav interrupting the National Convention. It was a quick way to see all the headlines on those hot topics.
Syndic8.com I found this site to be confusing and basically had no clue what was happening....I would need to spend a lot more time here to figure it out I think.
Technorati - was interesting to search but I couldn't get the full articles....obviously I'm doing something wrong this site was the most confusing to me.
Google blog search. I searched for my niece's blog paris stranger....and could not find it...interesting since she has typed her title in french and so it does not appear under the English equalivant of the title.
BlogPulse Tools- I read an interesting blog about a couple who decided to travel to Michigan to visit their daughter. They came by bus and Amtrak.
I thought that Google blog search and Blog Pulse were the easiestto use. Edublog was very interesting and I can see where I may be back there many times looking for information.
Blogline Search tool- I decided to look up Plimoth Plantation since we had recently toured there. I found some very intersting blogs that other people had posted of their journey. It was interesting to look at it through someone elses eyes.
Edublog took me to best individual edublogs of 2007 and then to Ewan McIntosh's blog Everything You Wanted to Know about YouTube which was very informative. I recommend you all check it out. I also watched the how to Soulja Boy video and now the song makes a whole lot more sense to me. I thought I could spend quite a bit of time here looking for information.
Feedster was not accessable for what ever reason.
Topix.net was all about Sarah Palin and Hurricane Gustav interrupting the National Convention. It was a quick way to see all the headlines on those hot topics.
Syndic8.com I found this site to be confusing and basically had no clue what was happening....I would need to spend a lot more time here to figure it out I think.
Technorati - was interesting to search but I couldn't get the full articles....obviously I'm doing something wrong this site was the most confusing to me.
Google blog search. I searched for my niece's blog paris stranger....and could not find it...interesting since she has typed her title in french and so it does not appear under the English equalivant of the title.
BlogPulse Tools- I read an interesting blog about a couple who decided to travel to Michigan to visit their daughter. They came by bus and Amtrak.
I thought that Google blog search and Blog Pulse were the easiestto use. Edublog was very interesting and I can see where I may be back there many times looking for information.
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