My journey into a Flowchart Nightmare (aka Thing 14)

Okay, this was a horrible experience.  So many buttons, colors, boxes and THEN after I create this poor excuse for a Design Chart, I'm told I joined a collaboration!  Seriously?  So at this point I'm laughing, but I will grudgingly admit, this is a pretty cool program once I settled down and started exploring I could absolutely see the benefits this would have in a classroom environment.  I tried to copy and paste my chart, but alas to no avail, but this link should take you there should you want to see my Flowbee.

http://flowchart.com/editor/#e655656e21a9e451:101889

The Wacky World of Wikis (aka Thing 15)

Well, first off, what the heck?  This was not a thrill a minute, BUT I can see how it's very cool and would make an awesome class project.  I did not accept that challenge at this time, only because this class and math, I am on a slight overload of information.  I will though, create one at a later time when this part of my academic adventure is complete.

The sandbox activity was interesting, but I had trouble navigating, hence the post of absolutely nothing, but then I was able to get a picture up there.  Here's to hopin' it's correct!

Lucky 13

                                   
This is my attempt at google docs drawing.  It was not wonderfully user friendly and navigating it was not my favorite thing to do.  I was going for the punch effect in the old Adam West/Burt Ward Batman episodes.  The choices of fonts is not that great, so I think it's missing the true BAM impact.

My zoho experience...

 

Okay, so with both programs I can see the benefits, especially if students do not have computer access at home, but they use a library computer or a friend's in order to access these programs and do their work.  That's a very cool feature of both.  To me Zoho offers a little more in terms of creativity and it is more user friendly.  I would probably push for my students to use Zoho before google docs.  However, having only poked around these programs for a short time, in all fairness I would have to take more time to really get to know them.