You will

• learn what Web 2.0 is
• learn some safety and netiquette points about using these great tools online
• try out collaborative and creative Web 2.0 apps
• evaluate them.

Visit some students' creations!

Agreed-upon "Rules of the Road" for this workshop and Thursday Techies:

• Make responsible decisions: if you encounter inappropriate material, simply hit the back button and let me know which site you were on!
• Don't create any media that is violent or negative about someone else
• Only add positive comments to others' work

The OMG-ya-gotta-try-THIS-out-site
Animation Creation			Check out some of these funny Flash-based videos. Kids take photos of themselves and add their faces to bodies -> choose their dance and go! (Well, WHEN the ElfYourself site isn't overloaded...) Andrew & Elijah, Conor, Clayton & RJ, Alyssa, Katerina, Isabelle & Lynsey, Ashly, Lynsey
			This online application records allows you to draw and create an animated flipbook!
	The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment. Has tutorial videos and examples to learn from.		Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash. With Wix you don't have to be a designer or programmer to create gorgeous Websites and embeddable Web objects. Wix's drag & drop interface easily adds audio, video, images, text, animation, decoration, and so much more. Username: elrodtech
	Create your own virtual pet, see it pop to life and play with it! <requires a safe download and browswer restart>		Make a card, movie, drawing, picture, story. Helps get your mind ready for Flash. Username: elrodtech
Avatar Creation
	Create yourself as a David-Shannon-style cartoon and then swap out YOUR parts for animal parts!		With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web. Username: elrodtech
	Create a talking Avatar. Let me log you in.
Drawing			This is Sand - create a sand design!
	Draw something and then replay it as a movie. Check out this one. Username: elrod		Online Etch A Sketch!
	Animate text!
	Username: elrod PW: mac + usual		You supply the text and this site does the rest!
Comic Creation
	A cool, comic-creating tool. ToonDoo is a unique place for free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun. Username: elrodtech		Create your own comics using photos you upload. Username: elrodtech
Photo Tweaking			Turn a photo of yourself into a cube... a jigsaw puzzle... LOTS of other effects! Username: elrodtech
	Oh so MANY things you can do with photos! To login ask me for my school email and use the usual pw.		Add speech bubbles to photos. To login as me for my school email and the pw is the usual.
	LOTS of ideas!		Take a quick photo and transform it!
Video Creation
	Turn photos into the coolest videos! See me for login information. (The ideal image size is 1024x768)		Username: elrodtech PW: mac + usual
Other			Online webbing tool
Kids' "Work"		Katie has Nick and the world in the palm of her hand!

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