9/1/11 Sandcastle images

Uploaded all sandcastle images on http://www.flickr.com/photos/tellitubes

8/29/11 Wordle

Today i finished my wordle project. The process was fairly simple, putting in random words or relevant words, then proceeding to the next page. It was a useful web 2.0 tool that can help me in the future for future projects, or decorations for the desktop or laptop wallpaper or screen saver. I learned how to edit the final product, with different colors in both text and background and different fonts, to give a more vibrant feel to the picture. I learned how to print screen and crop pictures from this process. The purpose of wordle is to allow users to create decorations, backgrounds easily, and keep it simple with words. The application isn't to technical and can be easily learned by beginners.

8/29/11 Mosaic and Puzzle

Today i finished the jigsaw and mosaic. The process was fairly easy, due to bighugelabs having user friendly tools to create various pictures. The web 2.0 tool on bighugelabs is very convenient, and can help me for future projects, or just for decoration, as a wallpaper or poster. I learned how to upload mulitple images, and the different techniques used to create and mesh different pictures. The purpose of this application is to provide an easier way of making decorative pictures without the hassle of cutting and editing, with editing programs.

8/25/11 Blog Sidebar

Today i had made a blog sidebar. I learned all the techniques in making a blog sidebar, and the simplicity of making a blog sidebar, finding different pictures, also learning that sidebars automatically find a montage of pictures. The blog sidebar tool for blog spot is simple and has informative tutorials that can assist anyone in making a good sidebar. It was extremely helpful when automatically finding pictures, instead of uploading individual pictures. This process can be useful in the future when making blogs in the future so people can see what I'm interested in and can be easily seen at the front page.

8/22/11 Animoto

Here is the finished animoto video

8/23/11 ICT Picasa and Prezi

Today i made 5 fruit faces and learned how to mesh different pictures together to make different faces here are the pictures i made. I had uploaded the images to my picasa. Picasa is a very user friendly tool that can assist me in the future when sharing photos with friends or to the public, and the process of making these faces can assist me in making new pictures, for future projects to make the audience engaged and interested. The link to the following pictures is https://picasaweb.google.com/109626813966293967479/ICTBLOGUPDATES?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMrhodD0zqz_Lw&feat=directlink

I also finished my prezi titled "development" and learned how the process works, how to put pictures and videos together and make paths from one picture to another, here is the link to my prezi http://prezi.com/faffi5fy3wvs/development/. Prezi is a simple tool where all tools are easily seen and can be easily used. Prezi can assist me further in the future for better presentations and projects, as it can assist me with engaging the audience and providing smooth transitions, brilliant pictures and motivational words.

8/15/11 ICT Flash

Today we learned about the motion tween, and about action script 3.0, it was very different from last year and the old motion tween was now a classic tween.

We learned how to make a car move across a road, and how to manipulate the car to move in different directions, up, down, left, right even curved. I learned how to use a shape tween and the various effects a shape tween can do, such as change different shapes into object or other shapes.

For the first time i learned how to make text appear one letter at a time and made the letter blend in with my chosen background, i also learned how to change the fps to make it slower or in some cases faster. Here are my flash projects. Here are links to the finished flash files.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tellitubes/6126404929/ - Car
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tellitubes/6126937632/ - Bart
http://tellitube.weebly.com/ - Wordpress

8/8/11 ICT Animoto

Today we learned about animoto and the process in how to use it. We learned how to upload multiple pictures, how to pick backgrounds, pick music for the slideshow, and how to download it on to the computer. It was a useful web 2.0 tool that can further assist me with future projects, or presentations assisting me in engaging the audience with vibrant pictures, transitions and music. The tool was very user friendly and was an easy process to get use to, as all tools are easy to spot and use.

8/4/11 ICT Flickr

Today i finished my 15 pictures, and experimented with the filter gallery, making sandcastles blend in with brick walls to make graffiti and also outing the images on paper to make it look like it was sketched.

I roughly did the same thing as last lesson but further expanded on my knowledge using filter gallery to assist me in making the picture look more intuitive and better. I had then uploaded the images into flickr. Flickr is a very useful tool that is easy to use and provides an easy way of uploading images. It can further assist me in the future by sharing my photos with friends or the public, in a user friendly environment. Or can be an easy way of obtaining pictures for my projects.