Word Clouds

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Wordle is just one of the many word cloud sites out there.  Word clouds can be used for fun and for educational reasons.  You can make one for class to spice things up in a speech or assignment.  They are silly, crazy, and cool.  Sometimes there are sites that don't make cool looking word clouds.  Its a good idea to use word clouds when either presenting something, or even just because your bored and want to play with words. 

<----Word it out

Image chef

 Image chef is a website that is strictly for fun.  It lets you play with words and pictures putting them into shapes or frames.  Here are some examples:
 Go to image chef!




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This site is amazingly AWESOME!

Gaia Online

    Gaia online is a virtual world that, in its own way, is a lot like meez.  The gaia online characters are tiny, cute, and are based on Japanese anime.  You can walk around town and gather gold that are hidden in bushes.  Another thing you can do is gather a ton of bugs so you can make them into ink, and with that ink your little character can get its self a tattoo.  There are tons of clothing options to choose from, but you have to buy your clothes with your gold.  Some items are really cheap like 25 or 15 coins and then there are items that are in the thousands.  Still this is a really fun site with cute graphics, fun games, and is smothered in awesomeness!

Faviki- bookmarking

Faviki is a social bookmarking site.  It lets you put all you favorite sites on there. It helps you search and find cool bookmarks or websites.  Its a useful tool that everyone should use. :)

Diigo- bookmarking

Diigo is a lot like delicious except its a little more confusing.  I'm not a big fan of Diigo because it's too complicated for me to understand.  If you figure out how to use Diigo I'm sure it'd be a very useful tool.

Delicious- bookmarking

Delicious is a site that organized all you favorite websites, and lets you share them with others.  You put tags on the site link so you can find the site link later.  You can look up sites on delicious that other people have found and liked, so you can spend hours finding cool and fun sites.  :)  Delicious is definitely something I would recommend people use.

Go To Delicious!

Symbaloo- bookmarking

Symbaloo is pretty cool.  It lets you book mark sites in an über sweet way.  The links are little squares that have the sites icon or picture, which is really cute I'd like to think. 


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You can add your own picture on the links so instead of a pic that just says "facebook" it could be a picture of a dog or of something else of your choosing.  You can add any site on symbaloo even ones that aren't well-known.  Symbaloo is a good way to organize links.

Go To Symbaloo!

Social Bookmarking

    Social Bookmarking is for people to organize websites that they find.  Many of these sites let you organize these sites so it'll be easier to find.  They are organized using Tabs, so use tons of tabs so you can find your site months down the road.  People use these for many reasons.  They can use them just to keep their favorite sites organized, for teaching purposes, or even for school assignments to share sources with classmates.  You can make your bookmarks private or public, its up to you.  Social bookmarking is extremely helpful, so if you need help organizing those favorite sites you should go to a book marking site.  (examples: diigo.com, delicious.com)

Meez Rooms

Say goodbye to the old way of chatting, because the meez rooms definitely dominate.  On meez.com you get to make an avatar and with the meez rooms you can use your avatar to walk around and to talk.  The meez can also dance, which is really hilarious. :)  This is a great way to make friends, and connect to others who enjoy the meez site.  You can buy a meez room some are for coins, but none of the rooms are cheap though. :P  Except for one room which is free.  Also, anyone is able to enter your room, so it can either be a bad thing for someone or it can be good.  This is a really fun tool that everyone should get involved in.

My Room :P

Meez avatars

    I really like the meez avatars!  They have cute outfits and cool hairstyles.  The only problem with the meez is that not all of the clothes, hair, or back rounds are free.  You have to earn points to get the outfits, and some outfits can only be obtained by being a "VIP."  On the meez you can change their eyes, eye color, hair, clothes, and you can also give them piercings and accessories.  You can give your meez an action which can make them dance or do other cool things.  There are also options that can make the meez different weights or sizes.  You can also change they eye and mouth and face shape.  I think everyone should have a meez avatar, because they are extremely cute and really fun to make.