Monday, July 20, 2009

typing website for kids,teachers, adults

I taught computers for two years but did not have a typing program to use. I looked on the internet and found www.freetypinggame.net. This site has progressive lessons, games, and timed tests. It is a fantastic site for students to use to help their skills. Adults will also find it fun as well.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Another fun site for pics of friends

Another fun site for pics of friends is www.pictogames.com. One of my students showed this site to me. You upload a friends face to the site and it creates a game of your friend's face. Some of the games are crazy and some pretty funny. The one I really like is the "whack the mole" game. Your friend's face pops up out of holes and you have to "whack" it. This is pretty funny.

Monday, July 13, 2009

movie websites

I just saw Transformers 2 yesterday. It was awesome. The IMAX experience was fun but expensive. I will have to see if I want to pay the California price of $15 in the future. A great website to check out movies, times, reviews, and trailers is www.fandango.com. I love the site and it is very easy to navigate. If you order tickets, just be aware they charge a fee.

Another great site for fans of movies is www.imdb.com. The site is called the International Movie DataBase. They have cast info, pics of stars, reviews, trailers, history, and useful links. For example, if you like the movie Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls, you type it in and find the movie. It has the cast info and pics listed. If you wanted to know who the villian was you could see it was Cate Blanchett. If you click on her link, you will come up with a listing of all appearances of her in order as an actress. This is fun and helpful if you are a trivia buff and wonder "what else has that character been in" when you see a movie. Have fun!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

have fun with friends' faces

Another site I went to that has some cool effects for faces is called www.miniclip.com. Then go the the game called "putty face." There you can morph your friends' faces into weird looking things. Also www.magmypic.com is a fun site where you can make a fake magazine cover with your friends face on it. Check them out.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

give to charity

I found another great site to give to charity. It is important to give to others and this is fun/educational as well. The site is called www.freerice.com. You have to guess the meaning of the words. It will test your vocabulary skills. If it gets too hard, it will drop you to an appropriate level. Each time you make a correct guess the company gives rice to third world countries. give it a shot.

Friday, July 3, 2009

morphing faces

I love pics and there are some great sites to morph your friends into cool animations and characters. To put your friends' faces on pictures, check out http://www.faceinhole.com/. There are some really cool ones on there (Star Wars, Shrek, Michael Phelps,etc.). The guy picks some great shots of singers,models, sports figures, and more. He updates them daily. Also if you like sending fun ecards, go to http://www.mushygushy.com/. This site also has lots of animated ecards you can put your friends' faces on them. Both of these sites are free. Lastly, http://www.jibjab.com/ has real person animations you can upload faces to. Let me know what you think. These three sites are great party pleasers and a lot of fun. Enjoy!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

great picture website

I love digital pics and love showing them to others. I found a great site that lets you do this. It is called http://www.smilebox.com/. It is free. You can pay a fee to customize your own music if you desire. However, it has photo albums,slideshows,holiday cards, e-invites, etc. This is one of my favorites and guests always love to receive a smilebox after a party. The site also keeps your emails and projects so you can resend one in a few minutes.