Montana Blog

Take a tour around the Montana Cadre Blog.  This will help you with your crossword puzzle.  Click the "About" link in the top toolbar and search for a woman dressed in a pirate costume.  Who is it? (3 Across)

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.

Click the gray circle triangle to play. Say in this is an answer to crossword puzzle 11 down.  Play to find the answer.

This is the tool you are using, trailfire. Similar to Furl or delicious it is a bookmark tool, but you can lead people down a trail like a tutorial.

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.  Would you take a moment to vote on dates for next year.  Thanks.

Yup if you click this link here "Success Videos" you will see all our videos from last year.  If you watch Jennifer Harrison's video you will be able to fill in the crossword puzzle on 12 Across.

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...

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...

This is the web2.0 link, now follow it to my links in del.icio.us and the first posting is the name of .....

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.

Yup, most of our time was spent on some Google Tools such as Earth, Notebook, Picasa...etc.

You can easily upload pictures to our blog.  This picture has the answer to the crossword puzzle 10 down... it is a .... yup you guessed it, a dog.

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