Notice!

For whatever reason whenever I try to post a comment onto someone's blog from my home computer I get logged out of my account and my comment isn't posted. I'm going to try to focus on commenting on your blogs at school from now on, but if I go a week without commenting, like this week, it's because I'm not managing my time at school properly and my home computer is acting weird.

Topic 8: Books and Reading

I created my digital book shelf with Shelfari, a free and easy to use web site that lets you compile a list of all the books you've read and share them with others. The hardest part about making your shelfari shelf is actually embedding it into your blog, but everything else is pretty easy to do. I chose this site over the other options that were listed because I recognized that Shelfari is affiliated with amazon.com and that means that I can probably trust my personal information with them more than I can with the other options (not that there's anything wrong with the other ones though!) Hopefully I'll remember shelfari years from now so I can remember all the books I read as a kid.

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Topic 7: Documents and Presentations

1. Google Driver is a helpful program that you can use when you are unable to use Microsoft word but need to write a paper. The link provided above is a timeline of events that happened in my book Memoirs of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
2. A web2.0 tool I used for this assignment was called Webydo. Webydo allows you to create a professional looking website without knowing how to code it. Here's a link to the website I made.
3. And here is a Glog that I made.

Topic 6: Creating Animations & Videos

Blog Posting:

• Embed or link the animation/video onto your blog so that I and your fellow library assistants can review it.
• Discuss why you chose the tool, how difficult or easy it was to use. Give 2 tips for new users. Finally let us know how you might use it for one of your PHS classes.