{"id":2137,"date":"2013-12-04T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2013-12-04T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:54:15","slug":"10-apps-to-countdown-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/10-apps-to-countdown-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Apps to Countdown the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the season and heading towards the winter break, I\u2019m doing a countdown of 10 apps that add spice to your toolkit. Regardless of the application or tool you choose to use, it always comes back to purpose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"picslice2\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/picslice2.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>APP #1:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/picslice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Picslice\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>is an online application (no downloading) that will take almost any image and slice into parts, crop and resize. The finished product can be used for many projects such as comics or a storytelling process. Using this image, imagine what the other parts of the full story might include. \u00a0What would be the storyline if you had this as a starting point? \u00a0Would it look like this?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"picslice_tardis\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/picslice_tardis.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you use\u00a0<strong>Edu.Symbaloo<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/web-resource\/symbaloo-visual-bookmarking\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>\u00a0for post) as a visual bookmark curation tool? While the tiles can be great, sometimes the coordination of them can be challenging for students to find what they need. \u00a0How about grouping sets of bookmark tiles using Picslice? Each slice of the image (eg. reading) goes out to a favourite reading site. \u00a0Or group all those math sites and offer them under one math image.<\/p>\n<p>The possibilities are endless. \u00a0How would you use\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/picslice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Picslice<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the season and heading towards the winter break, I\u2019m doing a countdown of 10 apps that add spice to your toolkit. Regardless of the application or tool you choose to use, it always comes back to purpose. APP #1:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Picslice\u00a0is an online application (no downloading) that will take almost any image and slice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[61,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}