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Great New Things (Web 2.0 Tools)

Wow! In the Edutopia (http://www.edutopia.org/) June/July Issue I read some great articles and was introduced to two new Web 2.0 Tools. Now these are not New tools but they are sure new to me one is Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) and the other is Voice Thread (http://www.voicethread.com/). Scratch was created by MIT so you know this is a genuinely student centered site with wholesome creativity bundled into genius activities. The other voice thread is a slideshow creator with the ability to add voiceover and share with other voice thread members. You can embed your creations and invite others to become users and view your slideshows.

June Stuff

Currently I have enrolled to the PB Works Camp, and decided to complete a 23 things list (still deciding which one to follow) and I read Twilight (I wanted to know what all the commotion was about like a year late, read it one a Thursday night) and I am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. My summer will begin on June 29! I found a converter yesterday to convert my Mpeg-4 videos to avi so I could import them to Movie Maker 2.1. I know I could have used Movie Maker 2.6 for Windows 2007 but not all our district computers have 2007 so..... It worked GREAT! It was called Pazera_Free_MP4_to_Avi_Converter.