Make a Cat

The dog and I had some quality time to spend yesterday while waiting for the football to start.  We had the house to ourselves for a kickoff at 1pm but we didn’t read the memo that the first game didn’t start until 3.  That gives us lots of time to experiment with the computer.  We decided to build our ideal cat to chase.

We decided to use the Catoonizer.  It’s a fun little program from the folks at Cartoon My Pet.  The Catoonizer is a simple little application to use.  Just load it and there are a couple of things that you can change.  Features and Markings (Grrrr, I’ll give you markings…) are all elements there for building your perfect cat.  (Grrrr, the only good cat is a treed cat)

So, we played around with the elements and decided that this would be his ideal cat.  Stationary and easy to catch and we played around with most of the things that we could configure.  Unlike the real world cats that we’ve run across, this one didn’t reach out and try to claw us.  

There is an export option to save your cat online.  This is a commercial product so you could export the image to your water dish so something but we drew the line at that!

It’s a fun little website and I could see the potential for students who need to create their own cat for a story.  It does require Flash in order to work but within a few seconds, you’re able to create your own customized cat.

OTR Links 01/23/2012

• 100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School | Edudemic

  If you’re a student, teacher, or administrator at a high school looking into adopting iPads for educational purposes, it’s important to know that the iPad is more than just an easy way to browse the web or visit the app store.

  tags: ipad apps highschool technology edtech iPads resources school

• Motivator: Create your own motivational posters!

  reate your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Print it, frame it! Make two—we know you’ve got hundreds of digital images and photos to spare! Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other posters. Perfect for the office, schools, teachers, coaches, as announcements, for parties, invitations, and a lot more.

  tags: posters motivational poster tools web2.0 fun motivation motivator

• Classroom 2.0 Live January 2012 – LiveBinder

  Classroom 2.0 Live January 2012

  tags: livebinder classroom20

• Tools for Building Your PLN – LiveBinder

  Tools for Building Your PLN

  tags: PLN livebinder

• Welcome! – WorldMap

  Build your own mapping portal and publish it to the world or to just a few collaborators. WorldMap is open source software.

  tags: maps geography mapping tools map Harvard cartography data

• Student Webtools – Symbaloo

  A collection of webtools for students to use to explore, create, and publish

  tags: student webtools symbaloo

• How Can I Beat My App Addiction and Clean Up My Smartphone?

  How Can I Beat My App Addiction and Clean Up My Smartphone?  I have too many apps on my smartphone and I can never find what I’m looking for. I know I can just delete them, but I don’t want to get rid of an app I might use. How can I reduce the number of apps on my phone and keep them organized without getting rid of something important?

  tags: beat app addiction smartphone

• Desmos | Work Together

  At Desmos, we let all of the devices in the classroom work together – from Interactive Whiteboards, to laptops and tablets, to smartphones. With our software, anyone can build rich content that plays in any browser, on any device.

  tags: calculator Math interactive graphing_calculator tools Maths education graphing

• A Win for Math Students and a Win for the Web: Desmos Goes HTML 5

  Last month, I chose Desmos as one of my picks for best new education startups of 2011, in no small part because of the company’s mission to create educational software so that interactive content is Web-based and works across multiple devices and platforms.

  tags: math students web goes html

• The case against and for iPads in the classroom | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

  The case against and for iPads in the classroom.  Do iPads belong in the classroom? A pair of articles on TechCrunch raise and address the question.

  tags: case ipads classroom news views libraries publishing topics

• The Problem With Tech and Teaching – SlashGear

  The Problem With Tech and Teaching

  tags: problem tech teaching

• The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat

  As it did with music and cellphones, Apple today fundamentally redefined what a textbook is with the announcement of iBooks 2 and its accompanying iBooks Author software.

  tags: dark apple textbook utopia

• Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book. – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD

  Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book.

  tags: apple math paper book peter media

• 5 Best Free Alternatives To Microsoft Visio

  5 Best Free Alternatives To Microsoft Visio

  tags: free alternatives microsoft visio

• 3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012

  3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012

• Google’s Sky Map Officially Open-Sourced | TalkAndroid.com

  One of Google’s more interesting apps is set for a major evolution. The Sky Map application has gone from being a modest app highlighting the Android platform’s capabilities to becoming one of the most popular apps on Android devices, as 20 million Android users use it. As part of the app’s continued growth, Google has decided to “donate the Sky Map to the community”.

  tags: google sky map com

• App inventor for Android becomes open source | ZDNet

  App inventor for Android becomes open source.  Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the ‘App Inventor’ source code for Android.

  tags: app inventor android open source source zdnet

• Parent Engagement in a Web 2.0 World | Bloggucation

  As a continuation of my previous post, Parent Engagement vs. Involvement and Why it is Necessary, I wanted to expand on the premise of engaging parents using social media and digital tools. To differentiate between the two terms, factoring in the power of today’s read/write web I did a little brainstorming one day on the white board in the 21st Century Fluencies (@HWDSB21CF) office of @HWDSB.

  tags: parent engagement web world

• NYTimes: Why Apple builds its products in China | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

  The NY Times just published an absolutely fascinating piece on Apple and why it builds almost all of its stuff in China. Go read it.  Clearly some of our politicians could learn a lot from it.

  tags: nytimes apple builds products china mac intelligence

• Welcome to AnMisH – Log in or Sign up. | Anmish

  AnMishH helps you create, send, and share your own animations as easy as you speak!

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• Create Comics with Chogger

  MAKE AND SHARE COMICS WITH CHOGGER!
  Use our comic builder to draw your own comics, caption photos, take webcam pictures and add speech balloons. Read, rate, and comment on comics made by people from all around the world.

  tags: comics digitalstorytelling web2.0 comic writing creator tools cartoon

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