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Befunky, Photopeach, and Sketchfu – it’s what students want to do!

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What are fun (and educational!) activities to do with students that they can also embed into blogs and other websites like wikis?

Who better to tell us then the students themselves!

So here is a list of tools compiled from recommendations by the Digiridoos, a group of Year 4/5 (9-10 year olds),  who each shared what they would include if they were in charge of the Student Blogging Challenge.

Befunky

Befunky is quick and simple tool for transforming digital photos into instant art work or digital comics.

Extensive range of effects, speech bubbles, accessories, graphics and lot’s of objects that you can add to your pictures.

Great for expressing creativity while having fun and providing cool images for spicing up your blog!

Example of using befunky

PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach is one of the fastest and easiest ways of creating a story or quiz using photos.

It’s as simple as:

  1. Uploading your photos
  2. Adding music
  3. Adding your captions.

Presto!  You’ve created a story that you can embed as a slideshow into your blog post.

Here’s detailed instructions on how to create and embed a PhotoPeach.

Check out the example of a PhotoPeach Quiz below:

Learn more about animals on PhotoPeach

PollDaddy

Polldaddy is one of the most recognized tools for creating online polls and surveys.

Polls provide different opportunities for gauging readers opinions compared to just asking questions in blog posts.

Not all readers feel comfortable leaving comments in responses to questions.

Polls means readers can express their opinion while maintaining their anonymity.

They also provide you and visitors to your blog the chance to gain a sense of how your readers feel on topics since most online poll tools display the results once a visitor has voted.

Check out the example of a PollDaddy Poll below:


Sketchfu

Sketchfu is a simple tool for creating your own cool animations online that can easily be embedded into your blog post.

Grabbing the Sketchfu embed code

Here’s an example of a Sketchfu embedded below:


Make your own drawings at SketchfuMore from this artist at SketchfuShare this drawing from Sketchfu
Learn how to draw cartoons, comics, and anime at Sketchfu!

Storybird

Storybird is a simple to use online digital story telling tool which provides amazing artwork for building your story.

Creating your own storyboard is as simple as choosing a theme (layout),  selecting the art work you would like to use and then writing your story.  With Storybird anyone can create great-looking digital picture book stories.

Here’s an example of a Storybird embedded below:

The Secretest Secret Agent Secret Cat on Storybird

Voki

Voki speaking avatars are cool and lots of fun to create.

They’re used to add a human element to your blogs.

Here’s detailed instructions on how to create and embed a Voki.

Check out an example of a Voki below:



Get a Voki now!

Wall Wisher

Wallwisher is an online notice board creator.

It’s a really fast and easy way to create engaging activities to use with students.

It’s as simple as:

  1. Create your Wallwisher
  2. Add some sticky notes
  3. Embed into your Blog Post
  4. Add more sticky notes

The sticky notes can be as simple as text only OR very creative with images, audio, video, SlideShares, Google Presentations, blog posts (basically almost anything you can link to via their URL)!

And students don’t need to have a Wallwishers account to use it!

Here’s detailed instructions on how to create and embed a Wall Wisher.

Embedding into blog posts

Embedding is as simple as:

1.  Completely write your post including adding title, text, images, tags and categories.

2.  Click on Save Draft, previewed your post and make all necessary edits.

Previewing your post

3.  Copy the embed code.

Copy the Photopeach embed code

4.  Click on HTML Tab on your blog post.

Your HTML Tab

4.  Paste the embed code for your PhotoPeach into your post where you want it to appear then immediately click Publish

  • Don’t click back to Visual Tab before hitting Publish as it can break the embed code.
  • Immediately close your post once you’ve published.
  • Change back to Visual Editing mode when you write your next post by clicking on the Visual tab.

Adding PhotoPeach Embed code to a post

Final Thoughts

Thanks to Digiridoos for sharing your favorite online tools!

What online tools would you add onto their list?

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Spicing Up Your Posts: Part I PhotoPeach

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Adding your own digital media content to blog posts isn’t hard and it does spice up your posts — providing more variety for your readers!

Let me show you how easy it is to create a PhotoPeach and add it to a blog post.

About PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach is probably one of the fastest and easiest ways of creating a story or quiz using photos.

It’s as simple as:

  1. Uploading your photos
  2. Adding music
  3. Adding your captions.

Presto!  You’ve created a story that you can embed as a slideshow into your blog post.

Here’s Examples!

  1. Look What’s Happening in Room 102! (Grade 2) PhotoPeaches:
  2. Mrs. Nessman’s class (Grade 1)

    • The Mural has arrived – excellent example of using it to increase cultural awareness between collorabive classrooms in different countries

Below is a quick quiz I created with PhotoPeach:

How To Create A Quiz

Creating a PhotoPeach Quiz is really easy.

Here’s how it’s done:

  1. Click on Edit once you’ve created your PhotoPeach
  2. Then click on Edit Captions and PhotosClick on Edit Captions and Photos
  3. Now click on each photo and then Quiz to add your questions Creating a Quiz
  4. When finished click OK

Disabling Comments

As Linda Yollis points out you can’t moderate comments on PhotoPeach.

You can turn off comments (if your prefer) by:

  1. Click on Edit once you’ve created your PhotoPeach
  2. Then click on Manage Comments  Managing comments on PhotoPeach
  3. Change setting to Don’t allow comments  Changing setting to not allow comments

How To Embed A Photo Peach

Embedding a PhotoPeach is the same as any other embed HTML code:

  1. Completely write your post including adding title, text, images, tags and categories.
  2. Click on Save Draft, previewed your post and make all necessary edits. Previewing your post
  3. Go to your completed PhotoPeach and hover your mouse over the PhotoPeach to bring up the menu items on the left hand side of the PhotoPeach.
  4. Click on Embed in Blog. Click on Embed in Blog
  5. Copy the Embed HTML code. Copy the Photopeach embed code
  6. Click on HTML Tab on your blog post.  Your HTML Tab
  7. Paste the embed code for your PhotoPeach into your post where you want it to appear then immediately click Publish
    • Don’t click back to Visual Tab before hitting Publish as it can break the embed code.
    • Immediately close your post once you’ve published.
    • Change back to Visual Editing mode when you write your next post by clicking on the Visual tab.

Adding PhotoPeach Embed code to a post

FINAL THOUGHTS

This is part of a series of spicing up your blog posts using digital media content.

Please share your cool examples of digital media that you’ve used in posts as we’d love to check them out!

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