Just a few words !

Hi guys!  Janette is back :) 

We are in a world of new technologies but technology has been giving a lot of trouble these days!! It’s not easy being a student with no home internet access (Yeah it sucks -_-'') and my laptop has some serious issues too!! (And I'm broke can't buy a next one now ... LoL)

But anyways I'm here now and by the way, Cecile has been doing a create job so far keeping the blog lively.

Humm what can I say?

Oh yeah! I had some technical difficulties with Audacity and Free screen to video before the holiday break. Unfortunately I couldn't convert Free screen to video so that the teacher could have it but then ... Now I know (and hope that everyone else know too) we have to save the file in FLV format!

Our story line started good but, we still haven't finish writing the story yet and time is really against us ! I was kind of disappointed when the teacher said that we couldn't use pictures from the internet because I felt like I wasted my time looking for pictures and we can't even use them anymore. Now we have to speed up our work because drawing all the different landscapes for our story is going to be a bit difficult. But I know we'll make it :) 

Cecile showed us some drawing she did for our main character and I found them pretty cool and she’s quite talented! I can hardly draw a flower LoL.

This week I didn't do anything much in class (because I didn't have my laptop) but the rest of the class created an account on Voicethread and got familiar with it (though I already had an account and got used to it so, I didn't miss much).  But they also installed WORDLE!

What is WORDLE (wordle.net)?

Wordle is an application to create "word clouds" / "tag clouds". It's a graphic representation of words taken from a text or words you type in.  It’s amazing to see that it automatically put important words in bigger characters (when the word is written/ repeated several times)!  This is awesome because you can copy and paste a text and get the main topic before reading it; Wordle is good at summarizing. :)    

Wordle can help to create guidelines for an assignment or a debate, I guess. Or, introduce an activity: maybe put different words on a same topic and having the students to discovery the topic based on the link they find between the words.  

Oh! We have to install GIMP and Brintha told us about Sketchbook application but I haven’t check none of them yet so stay tuned, I’ll soon be back with a next article ;)