Integrating Technology Into the Classroom

� A web-based tool which combines scrapbooking with blogging

� Allows the user to create a multimedia scrapblog � Allows the user to create a multimedia scrapblog by combining videos, audio, and text

� Use your own personal photos, video footage, & audio recordings to add your personal touch

� Encourages creativity

� Provides many “themes” to choose fromProvides many “themes” to choose from

� Includes a preview option to help you make a choice

� Simple and easy to use

� You can share your scrapblog at a unique URL

� RSS feeds and e-mail notifications for every pagepage

� Option to make your scrapblog private

� You do not have to register to get started

� Begin by choosing a theme or blank page

� Click “done” and use the middle of the page to begin your creationcreation

� Add your images by clicking on “photos” to select images from you hard drive or other on-line sources

Keep Keep memories alivememories alive

� Select, drag, and drop image into a photo place-holder or anywhere on the page

� Move, rotate, and resize images with your mouse� Move, rotate, and resize images with your mouse

� Add elements from the asset trays on the left: photos, shapes, texts, stickers

� Found on the left side of the page

� Contains elements you can drag into your creation

� Where you can download your images, change the background, and add stickers, shapes, text, balloons

Top of the page:� Allows you to save, publish and share your creation

� Give yourself a nickname your public will know you byyou by

Bottom of the page:

� Add, re-order, and delete pages

� Add transitions, and music

� Navigate the pages of your creation easily by � Navigate the pages of your creation easily by clicking on the page thumbnails

� Add the “Ken Burns Effect” which is a feature that gives your scrapblog subtle motion

� Found on the right side of the page� Background :add shadow, change the level of transparency, change the color

� Images: remove red eye, add effects (black/white, blur, fade) blur, fade)

� Crop images, cut & paste, copy, zoom � Add borders and shadows to your images� Add links

� After a class field trip have students create a Scrapblog of what they learned, using photos taken on the trip

� Have students create a Scrapblog to introduce themselves at the beginning of the school year

� Create a class yearbook

� As a tool to add creativity and illustration to a class project� As a tool to add creativity and illustration to a class project

A fun and creative tool to use in both your use in both your professional and personal life!!!