2/26/2013 Google Form

I use Google Form to create a questionnaire to investigate the reading habit of different age group. It includes 5 Questions.You can design different kinds of questions base on your requirement and you can also choose a theme to decorate the questionnaire.

After people fill the form, it provide result automatically. I ask three friends and family members do the survey. The result is shown as follow.

The result is provided in two format - Chart format and spreadsheet format.

If you are interested in this survey please fill out the questionnaire and if you are interested to see the result. Please view the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArKwsSuNbsO-dHhlWFo1MkhlbTBlSTdXR1RkRmtwVXc#gid=0

2/22/2013 Prezi Presentation

Today I explore a new way to do presentation. I create my slides in Prezi. You can either use the existing presentation format to create your presentation or design your own format. It is very simple. You just insert the text or pictures or even video into the presentation.

The NETS-T standards that related to this is:

2a: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

Below is a presentation to illustrate a very special place in China. Please follow me to have a tour!

2/18/2013 Digital movies from PowerPoints

Today, I create a digital movies from powerpoint(PPT). It is very cool!

Several easy steps:

1) Download the Microsoft Photo Story 3 and install the software on my computer. 
2) Register for and account and sign in. It is free. 
3) Screen cut PPT slides into images.
4) Upload all the images into the software.
5) Record your voice or input your own description to each image and go to the next.
6) You can also attach a background music to the video and adjust the volume.
7) Finally, by clicking save the video to the computer, the software will combine all the pictures, voice record and music into a .wmv format video.

I have upload my photo story of Pesticide onto Youtube as well. Below is the link, hope it helps more people to get some knowledge about Pesticide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR_-op8Yklg&feature=youtu.be

2/12/2013 Presentation 1

I use Microsoft power point and would like to present the environmental protection topic to my students - Making the world a better place.

2/5/2013 Jing Video

I use Jing to capture video today. It is a very great tool to demonstrate on computer.

I use Jing to illustrate the most popular socialcommunication toll in China – QQ. I show several things as below: 

1)       How to open the tool.

2)       Find a friend and communicate with him/her.

3)       Use the screen capture tool in QQ.

4)       If you are interested in it, please go to http://download.imqq.com/

   5)       Install your software and invite your friend now!

With Jing Video, you can either save the video in your own computer or upload it on the website.It saves as SWF format. There are three prongs in Jing's main menu. They are 'capture', 'history' and 'more'.You can capture picture or video by clicking 'capture'. After capturing the screen, you can find all the files in the history. You can exit the software by clicking 'more'.

Jing is a very interesting tool. I will use it in my teaching.

2/1/2013 Jing

I install a screen capture tool today. It is called Jing. It is free and you can capture pictures and adjust it by adding text or shape on it. Here is my work. I there is a picture of flower and there are some description and terms on the picture. I would like to use this and share it with my students. However, I find there are two more terms of the part of the flower that I would like to add. Therefore, I use Jing to capture the picture and add my own common on it. After all, I just save it as a png. format picture and attach it to my blog and email to my students.The picture also saved in the history of the software for you to find and use later.