I added a Google Translator to my firefox add ons I added this because if I was reading a website or a blog and they used another language then I could get to the translator very quick and find out what it means and then go on with my reading. I just feel it is a useful add on!
We learned how to add a theme to our tabs on firefox. Meaning that the area where our tabs are we now have a picture of our choice. Below is the picture that I added. This picture is well fit for me because I enjoy looking at pictures of flowers and other pretty things from nature.
We got to explore a button website and you could make just a button with writing, but you could also put pictures and text on a button!! You can change the color of text and you can change the background color. You can do a lot of cool things with this website. Below are a few buttons that I made!!
Today in class we got to play around on an awesome website! It is a free website that you can create a monkey with the options that they give you, and you can have it say whatever you want and then you can email it too you friends! Below is one that I sent to one of my friends I picked the "text to speech" and I typed in what I wanted the money to say and then I emailed it to my friends!
Now that we are back from Spring Break we are learning how to use a lot of different tools. Today in class we were to explore websites and find new tools on Adobe Illustrator to use and explore with. After going through a lot of websites I found the "colorful gradient orbs" I have practiced making a lot of these and learned how to use different tools to make it look different or better. An orb is a circle of a bunch of colors that you blend together to make a cool backdrop or whatever you want to do with it, it would look cool in a lot of different places.
How to Create Colorful Gradient Orbs in Illustrator
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Story Jumper is a great website that anybody can use. It is very easy to learn how to use. If someone wants to write a book for their child or grandkid it would be perfect!! I wrote this book for my little brother Quinn!
Google translate is a very useful website you can type a word in, in the language you speak and on the other side it will show you how to spell it and how to stay it. It can also speak for you so if you don't know the language at all it can help you out a lot. Below is a screenshot of the page it is vey easy to use as you can tell. On the top left hand corner you can see that I clicked "English" so then I typed in English and on the other side it showed me the word in Spanish because I clicked the Spanish button.
There is an app through google called "google wallet" and it is very helpful. If you make money online it can send your money directly to your account. If you would like you could get cash from the money you make. Also if you would like to send money to a friend, all you have to know is their gmail. Below is a screenshot of the page where you send someone money.
I just found out about a google app, it is a calendar. You can create events, they can be set for all day, a certain amount of time. You can also share your calendar with someone. If you are the leader of a club or something you could add all of the members and they would be able to see all of the events that you scheduled in the calendar. You can enter a description so if there is information that you would like the members to know you can write it in there, you can also set a reminder, so everyone that you are sharing the calendar with will get the notification. You can also set it as you being free or busy, so if it is just someones birthday then you wouldn't have to be set as busy. The picture above is a screenshot of the calendar. As you can see you can add an event and you can have it set for certain times.
A google form is a very useful tool, people can use it for all sorts of different reasons like: to take a survey, to take a poll, an order form, a sign up sheet and many others. After you have made a google form you can see the results of your survey or anything you create a form about. In class we made a google form and it was just a little quiz that could be about anything, the last blog post is about that form. The following picture is my results to my survey. As you can see google gave me a pie chart of the two options of the "multiple choice" questions. When it gave me a bar graph it was a "short answer" question so it gave me multiple different answers that people gave.
Google Maps is a very cool and useful website. If you were planning a trip you can see how long it will take you to get from one place to another. In class today I viewed my entire 2 week trip and how long it would take us to get from one place to another. It tells you how long a flight is how long a walk is or drive. It lets you know when the busy days are at parks, pools etc. When I was planning out my trip it told be the busy days of the national parks and zoos I am going to. Below is a screenshot of Google Maps.
In class we just learned about a new bookmarking website. A bookmarking website is basically a page full of links to the websites that you choose to put on your page. The bookmarking website that we learned how to use is called Symballo with Symballo you can create your own web mix a web mix is page of all the websites you choose to add to your page. The page is set up with "tiles" the tiles are the place that your link goes and you can choose to add your own picture to the icon or you can use one that they choose to put on your tile. The image below is a screenshot of my Symballo page. I have not added very many links yet but soon this page will be full of web tools.
I made this gif at Free GIF Maker it is an easy and free website.
I am vey interested in volleyball I have found two blogs that I really like. The first one is Junior Volleyball Association I really enjoy this blog because I play club volleyball and it lets me know how some teams that I have seen at tournaments are doing. I also really enjoy watching KU Volleyball this blog lets me know how the team is doing and every players personal stats. Another very good volleyball team is Nebraska Huskers and the link is to a blog about the volleyball team. I hope if you are interested in volleyball that you like these sites.
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