Around the Cadre Blog

Starting at our home page, we will tour around some of the tools that are found here.

Here is the wiki we are using to gather your Birds of Feather topics.  Take a moment and enter a topic if you have one for our discussion. There are many free wiki tools out there.  This one is pbwiki.com

Trailfire is like Furl and del.icio.us in that you can bookmark pages, but as you can tell, it goes farther than that, it will lead down a trail of webpages.  Great for a tutorial, or show and tell.  If you want to know more about navigating Trailfire, this page is a great guided tour.

On the crossword puzzle, 2 down it asks you to find the man in the orange hat.

All you have to do is click "About Us" here or in the top  header and scroll down the page.  Did you find it?

To find the answer to 5 down, you might try this google search bar... try maybe "United Streaming".

See if you can find the answer there.

Glickr is another tool used with Flickr that allows you take your pictures stored there and put them into a slideshow to display in your website.

Polldaddy is a great tool that makes quick polls and surveys, that you can embed in your webpage or link to in an email.  It keeps track of the results too.

Oh and did I say it is free.  You can try to vote if you want, although the poll is close.

spresent is a fun tool to create slideshows and then embed the code into your own webpage or send in an email.

You cannot upload powerpoint.  But it is pretty intuitive and easy to use.  And the graphics add spice to a webpage.

On the crossword puzzle 14 down it asks a question from this slideshow, be sure to watch by clicking play (the white triangle in the gray circle).

I used question form to create a quick survey to embed in the cadre blog.  Be sure to give your feedback.

The tool is free for a limited number of surveys, for more advanced there are monthly fees. There are other survey tools out there like surveymonkey or zoomerang.  So far this tool is the only one I found where you can embed surveys in our own webpage (that doesn't mean there are not others out there though).

Community Walk is a great mapping tool.  This is the free version (has advertising).  You are looking at the cadre's community walk, which we will be working with and learning.

Of course Google has recently come out with their version also.  I haven't done a comparison yet.  Maybe you could, and let me know...

Flickr is a place to store pictures.  In the cadre blog I have put a flickr badge of pictures.  A badge is fancy wording for how the pictures move around.  Flickr gives you the html code to cut and paste into any webpage. All you need are the pictures.

Now you can add the Custom Google Search right to your own webpage.  It doesn't have to search the world wide web, but you can specify the web pages you want it to search.  So for the cadre, it searches all the cadre pages.  There is a step by step tutorial on how to set it up and embed it in your website.

Just click Create a Search Engine... well not now, maybe later...

There are lots of places you can search for our future cadre dates.

• In the top bar where it says "Meeting Info"
• In the right sidebar where it says "Meeting Agenda"
• Or in a search using the search box in the right sidebar
  

This web graphic organizer was created at bubbl.us.  Easy to use and like other tools they give you the code to embed in a webpage or a url to share via email.