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I have read quite a bit about Toon Doo in the last couple of weeks. After seeing what Paul Wilkinson, 24 Learning, has been doing with it I thought I’d post it here and someone might like to have a play with it during the holidays. Maybe you could post the results on this blog or your own.

Vicki Davis has been posting cartoons created in Toon Doo.
I thought I’d play around with it and I discovered you can also upload your own images. Now that is cool. You are not limited by the backgrounds available but you can use paint, kidpix, artrage etc or take your own photos and use them as backgrounds. Wow this is exciting. Anyone for a cartoon exchange?

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I thought you might like some humour for the school holidays. This video came via Miguel Guhlin’s blog (He was the key presenter at the Tuanz conference in Rotorua which I attended).

Enjoy!

Hey, I found this site which has a lot of general knowledge quizzes. The site is http://www.triv.net/users.htm It offers a lot of challenging general knowledge quizzes that would keep you all busy these holidays. Tell me what you think about the site. Jayden

About Montage-a-google

Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or
even posters (see examples below – more coming soon).
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/gfx/montage-a-google.jpg

This app requires version 8 of the Flash player or higher to run, you can get the latest version here.

Like this? Try Guess-the-google, the image guessing game based on the same platform.

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from Derek’s Blog by Derek Wenmoth, here are some more interactive games for you to try.

There are five excellent activities listed on the WV simulation games page – I’ve registered and had a dabble with Eliminate - Child labour (experiencing life as a social worker with the goal to eliminate child labour in a community) , and with Frontline (Set in a conflict zone, teams face decisions that save lives and assist those impacted by conflict.)

I’m really impressed with the quality of these activities – both in terms of the way the activities themselves are devised and structured, and in terms of the interface.

You will need to register before you can play the games. A couple of them have term starting dates but Eliminate and a couple of others can be played as soon as you register. I’d like to know what you think of them.

Thanks for the link Derek.

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What do you think of this? Have you seen it before?

We often worry about providing good role models for our teenage kids. For girls, I think DayZLoop provides a great, healthy online community where they can explore some serious and not-so-serious issues.

DayZLoop combines Habbo Hotel type social spaces with Bebo profiling, but best of all is its basis in online television shows which cover inspirational teen role models, teen reporters covering issues such as anorexia or how to make some great food for your next
sleepover (OK, their next sleepover).

There are plenty of examples, too, of where girls have taken a hobby and turned it into a cottage industry, whether it’s interior design for their friends’ bedrooms or bespoke fashion accessories.

Have a look yourself and see whether it’s the kind of site you would use.

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Here are two interesting games for you to try. One of them, Ayiti, I discovered at the Learning@School conference in Rotorua a couple of weeks ago. One of the keynote speakers was JenniferCorriero who is the person behind the web site which has this game. She is about 26 (I think) and has done some tremendous stuff for kids with her website TakingITGlobal. Have a look at it as some of you may be really interested in some of the work/projects there. I haven’t joined yet but we could if you are keen.

The other game is Darfur is Dying. I found out about this from a New Zealander, Paul Wilkinson.

Let me know what you think of them.

Rasterbator is a new tool which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture (max file size is 1Mb). You upload your image, select your size, and the result is a multi-page pdf file. You can then assemble the file in the correct order.

I fooled around with this yesterday and took a photo of a colleague. When I looked at it, it just looked like a bunch of huge dots. I figured I would print out the first “row” of photos (consisted of 4 sheets of paper — the whole file was a 4 x 4 square). I taped the sheets together, hung it in their office, and asked if they knew what it was. Knew right away and when you step back from the photo, you can see
the image very clearly. Close up it still looks like dots but it is very cool. Now, I am waiting for the right image to use for this. It was very easy to do. I read more on this tool and found out you can play
around with the dot size to make it a finer image.

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