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Welcome to my first Technology Tuesday post!  Based on your votes, the majority of people wanted to learn how to create a talking avatar!  Before we get started, check out my talking avatar below:

Sometimes explaining technology over the internet can be difficult, so I decided to lay out the directions step by step using pictures!  Let me know if I should go forward with this format for future Technology Tuesday posts! Now, enough talk, lets start having fun with technology!


First things first, visit Voki so you can practice along with the following directions! (Creating a Voki account allows you to create your own avatars for free.  A Voki "Classroom" account gives you accounts for all of your students and costs money.  For now, just create a regular Voki Account.)  
 

I hope you enjoyed my first "Technology Tuesday" post!  I really mean it when I say that Id love to see you Vokis, so be try to post one as a response in the comments! Be sure to vote in my sidebar to pick what I will blog about next week! This post is linked up with the following Linky Party!

I recently realized that its been a while since I posted a tutorial on how to make a specific product, so it was no surprise to me that this was a winner on the poll!  So, here it is... how to make a one page folding book!


This took more than half (and nearly 3/4) of the votes on the poll... wow!

Now for the tutorial:








For next weeks poll, Im actually going to gear towards middle/high school students and teachers, as well as even college students by adding the option "How to easily make a bibliography (MLA -or- APA)."  I hope I can blog about this option before teachers start year end research projects with their students!!!!

PS: This was a request from my "Technology Tuesday" request form.  I read it over every week and try to pick from those options for upcoming tutorials, so be sure to leave me a note if theres anything you want to learn how to do!!!

Its Tuesday again... which means its time for another technology tutorial!  The winner for this week was how to make an outline of any text!


This option won the poll its first week!


So you know, the tutorial has three parts:

1. Outline of Any Font in Microsoft Word (Mac or PC)
2. Outline of Any Font in Microsoft PowerPoint (PC)
3. Outline of Any Font in Microsoft PowerPoint (Mac)

I hope that makes it a little easier for you to find the option that works best for you!






For next weeks poll, Im going to add how to make any picture into a coloring image.  I really hope this comes up before the holidays!  I think it would be so cute to make a coloring book with pictures of the students and give each student a copy as part of their holiday gift!


This definitely works better with pictures of people rather than little furry dogs... but thats just an example!

Sarah over at Miss As Kindergarten asked me if I had a blog button code and I actually didnt!  I played around with HTML to make my own, but I was messing up somewhere along the line.  Then, I found this awesome website:


It does all of the HTML work for you... and you can even pick custom colors for your code box and text!  All you have to do is copy and paste the completed code to your blog!  Check mine out in the sidebar to see how it looks!

Thanks to Sarah for inspiring me to do this! Everyone, please stop by her blog to show her some love... she also has Technology Tutorials (with videos!) so I know youll love her!

I just love the look of italic text!  I love that it makes things stand out without making them in your face like bold does.  Its a nice simple way to accentuate something.

Well... if you use italic text in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, or if you use it on Blogger, this tip will save you a little bit of time!

Cute fonts always seems to catch my eye!  This weeks winner on the poll was how to find and install new fonts.  And... I added a little bonus... how to find free fonts for commercial use!!!


Here are the poll results:



Here are the links to some of the sites you can find free fonts:







For those of you looking for some new fonts that you can use in your commercial products, check out the website below!

A few months ago, Blogger changed the built-in followers box option to one that uses Google Plus - but a lot of people have asked me over time how to add the original followers box that you see on most blogs.  Well... it took quite a bit of research but here it is!


Heres the poll!


I looked though and attempted so many different tutorials online for this... and I found the best one at Southern Speakers. I hadnt seen this website before but I suggest you check it out because it has a lot of great items!



As for next weeks tutorial, Im going to add another Blogger option... how to make a "grab my button" code for your sidebar (similar to the one below)!