Evaluation+of+Mulitmedia+Programs

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1. Name of the Program: Wordle 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: A site used for generating word clouds with provided text. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Awesome program! This is something that a teacher brought up last year for us to try. My students loved it. The last week of class we each made a wordle with all of the students names on it. It would also be a neat site to use for topic like listing mammals/reptiles/amphibians, etc.

1. Name of the Program: Glogster 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: This site is used to create online posters. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This site seems like it would be a neat site and create some very interesting posters. On the otherhand, it seems as though it would be a tough thing to get through and require quite a bit of work. Good results with some extra work!

=Assignment #2 - 11-21=

1. Name of the Program: Interactive Quiz 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: A site to create a quiz into a fun arcade style game. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I thought that this was a neat site, but the one thing i noticed is that you need to have at least 10 questions on your quiz. Could be very good for students a little bit older.

1. Name of the Program: Embedit 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Allows students and teachers to be able to create a live page instead of creating a link to that page. 4. Ease of Use:good 5. Your reaction to the program: Looking through this site, it seems easy to use and process through and download a document or a url.

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1. Name of the Program: Mixbook 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Creating digital stories, online scrapbooks and storyboards 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This would be an awesome tool to use to create storyboard. I had a students last year who created their own readers theater story. This would have been a neat site to be able to plug her story into.

1. Name of the Program: My story maker 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: **My StoryMaker** lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I like this program. It allows the students to go in to the site and create the scenes of a story without writing. This cab be a bad thing that they aren't writing the story but still fun to create a story as they are writing by what you are doing with the pictures. Kids would have dun with this.

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1. Name of the Program: Widgenie 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: this site allows you to create graphs and charts online 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: I like to have fun with graphs and charts and create class graphs of different class favorites. This would be a greta way to do that and make it on computers. Just another way for kids to do something and being able to use technology.

1. Name of the Program: Wolf Ram Alpha 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: This program allows you to solve problems by doing computation. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Kind of a neat site to type in and find out a little information about something. I like that it's just a little bit of information unlike going to google where there's an abundant amount of information.

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1. Name of the Program: Big Huge Labs 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Build picture templates and make id badges, trading cards, etc. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I really like this site and I think students would love it also. Very neat things to do with students and make id's for them to have in class. Would be able to use for a sub or to wear on a field trip.

1. Name of the Program: Capzles 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create on online timeline using photos and music 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This seems like a pretty useful site. We work with timelines in class and it would be neat to do them on the computer instead of always just drawing them out on paper. Just makes things more interesting.

=Assignment #6 - 55-65=

1. Name of the Program: Museum Box 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: I think this is a great site to use to create a project on a specific topic. This would be fun to have the students each pic a president and make their own box and share out with the class.

1. Name of the Program: Obsurvey 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Create survey, collect responses, analyze results 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: We do a bunch of surveys throughout the year about different topics. This again, like most of the other sites would just be a nice change of pace to be able to do this on the web and create results.

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1. Name of the Program: Picture Book Maker 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: Picture Book Maker is a site for making easy/fun picture books that you can print out for your enjoyment. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: This site could be really fun. I could see myslef having the students create a mini story and to go to the lab and put them into these story books. Exciting for the students!

1. Name of the Program: Panraven 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: In addition to sharing your stories online, you can order hard-bound printed versions of your stories 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: Another neat site to incorporate you pictures with words and music. This site though has a neat feature where you are able to put this into a hrad bound book if you like, or you can just share them on the web.

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1. Name of the Program: Story Cove 2. URL of program:http://www.storycove.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Error 3. Purpose of the Program: This is an interactive storytelling site. 4. Ease of Use: good 5. Your reaction to the program: When I saw it was like Brain Pop, I was sold. My students love using the brain pop site, so I will have to try this site as well and see if I get the same response to this program.

1. Name of the Program: Webely 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: to create a class website 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This year I would like to do some more technology sites with my students and use some of these creation sites to help make some fun things. This could be used as our class website to show these things we are working on.

1. Name of the Program: Speechable 2. URL of program: [] 3. Purpose of the Program: adding speech bubbles to images 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: This would be so much fun to use with either class photos, or random photos found. I would love to take class photos of students working and then have another student create a speech bubble of what they think they are thinking.

1. Name of the Program: Tagul 2. URL of program:http://tagul.com/ 3. Purpose of the Program: make a word cloud 4. Ease of Use: excellent 5. Your reaction to the program: Excellent site to make a word cloud similar to wordle. This would be a good site to do as a spin off of wordle. This nice thing is that you can put these words into shapes this time, so something a little different.