This document summarizes an online scrapbooking and blogging tool that allows users to create multimedia scrapbooks called scrapblogs. Users can combine videos, audio, and text, and include their own photos, video footage, and audio recordings. The tool offers themes, a preview option, and ways to publish, share, and embed scrapblogs through RSS feeds, email notifications, or unique URLs. Users can add images, text, shapes, and other elements, rearrange pages, and add transitions and background effects without registering. The document suggests ways teachers could have students create scrapblogs for class field trips, introductions, or a yearbook.

1. Integrating Technology Into the Classroom

2. A web-based tool which combines scrapbooking
with blogging
Allows the user to create a multimedia scrapblog
by combining videos, audio, and text

4. Use your own personal photos, video footage, &
audio recordings to add your personal touch
Encourages creativity
Provides many “themes” to choose from
Includes a preview option to help you make a
choice
Simple and easy to use

6. You can share your scrapblog at a unique URL
RSS feeds and e-mail notifications for every
page
Option to make your scrapblog private
You do not have to register to get started

8. Begin by choosing a theme or blank page
Click “done” and use the middle of the page to begin your
creation
Add your images by clicking on “photos” to select images
from you hard drive or other on-line sources

9. Keep
memories alive

10. Select, drag, and drop image into a photo place-
holder or anywhere on the page
Move, rotate, and resize images with your mouse
Add elements from the asset trays on the left:
photos, shapes, texts, stickers

12. Found on the left side of the page
Contains elements you can drag into your
creation
Where you can download your images, change the
background, and add stickers, shapes, text,
balloons

14. Top of the page:
Allows you to save, publish and share your
creation
Give yourself a nickname your public will know
you by

16. Bottom of the page:
Add, re-order, and delete pages
Add transitions, and music
Navigate the pages of your creation easily by
clicking on the page thumbnails
Add the “Ken Burns Effect” which is a feature
that gives your scrapblog subtle motion

18. Found on the right side of the page
Background :add shadow, change the level of
transparency, change the color
Images: remove red eye, add effects (black/white,
blur, fade)
Crop images, cut & paste, copy, zoom
Add borders and shadows to your images
Add links

20. After a class field trip have students create a Scrapblog of what
they learned, using photos taken on the trip
Have students create a Scrapblog to introduce themselves at the
beginning of the school year
Create a class yearbook
As a tool to add creativity and illustration to a class project

23. A fun and creative tool to
use in both your
professional and personal
life!!!