Primary Games

Duck Life is one of my favorite games on this website! You coach a little duck so he can race in a big race so you can rebuild your farm.

I also enjoyed playing Wild Wild Taxi which is a game that you have to move through the traffic in order to get to the flag on time.

Another game that I enjoyed playing was Crazy Penguin Catapult. You have to different things on each level. This level, I was aiming for bears.

ToonDoo

Visitors to my Blog

Only one country has visited my blog so far since I have added the Flag Counter gadget to my blog. This feature tells you what country your visitor is from, and the date they visited. When you get more visitors from other countries your circle will start to divide up. Here is my circle. The United States is the only country that has visited my blog, therefore, it is the only country that shows up on my circle.

Flag Counter

Flag Counter is a cool feature that if fun because you can see what countries view your blog. You can customize your counter so its what you want it to look like. This is my flag counter.

Flowers

Flowers to mail is a fun and a useful website to get on. If you don't have time to go out and get flowers, you can send someone them by email. On this website you can make many bouquets of flowers for friends and for family. You can change the shape of the vase and the color. When you make the bouquet, before you send it you can type a message to the person that you're sending it to. Here is one of the bouquets that I created.

Here is one of the bouquets that I received. From "Jason Castro" (Ryan LaCombe)

Word Clouds

Today in Computer Essentials we explored word clouds. I found word clouds to be useful and fun! They can be useful because you can easily make a neat way to display information. You can also just mess around on them by putting in song lyrics or quotes. Wordle is more of a basic word cloud site that doesn't have a bunch of features. Tagxedo is a more advanced word cloud site that has way more features on it. You can change the shape, the text and the color of your word cloud. Here are a few of the word clouds that I created.

Photo Editing

Foto Flexer is an editing site that is unique because you can put your head on bodies of super models, cats, and more. It does have all of those other features like cropping and fixing the red eye. You can also re-size the picture and rotate it.

Pixlr is another editing site that I explored today. You can chose from three different settings:
Pixlr editor is more advanced than all the other ones. You have way more options regarding editing your pictures.
Pixlr express is more efficient than the next one. You do however have good features though.
Pixlr o-matic is more playful, not really serious editing. It's just to mess around when you're bored. Or, when you have to do a quick little edit, this one is probably the best one to go to.

Photo Show is fun because you can put a slideshow together of all the pictures you want. You can edit the pictures too!

Photo Editing

A couple of fun photo editing websites that I have explored are PiZap and Pic Monkey.

PiZap - PiZap is a cool site that you can edit pictures dramatically. You can put different eyes, hair, hats, or pretty much whatever you want to on it.
 

Pic Monkey- Pic Monkey is a more subtle editing site. There are some effects that are dramatic though.

Tools

Super Teacher Tools is a fun website with lots of unique tools on it. All of the tools on there can make a teacher's job way easier. For instance, the instant classroom can make it easier by not having to take the time o design a seating chart or anything like that. There are also things on there like the world population counter.

Class Tools is another cool site that has a lot of neat features. Some of the ones I thought were cool was the fake tweeter. You can type in a name and a tweet and it'll look a lot like a real tweet. It will come up with a picture that they think is that person.

Stykz

Stykz is a cool feature that you can use to create animations. You can change the color of your background and the color of your people. You can draw shapes and color them too! You have to download the application on your computer.