DiscoveryUtopias

Ways To Enhance Your Utopia


Explanation

This page is for any students who are looking to put more than just words into their Utopia proposal. Please use the following resources to embed multi-media into your proposal so that your reader can more fully understand what your utopia looks like and feels like. If you find any other resources that you think might be useful to your fellow utopians, please add them below.  This is organized so that you can find what you want in a narrower category.  The resources are listed by how many people might want to use them and by how easy they are to use.  Each link has who found them so everyone still gets credit for what they found.



Country/Society

Jeremy: Flag Creator that doesn't make it wavey and you don't need to take a screen shot, just save the picture to your desktop using right click after you click on the larger version button on the right.  You can put in over 100 differnt signs on it just using what they have and you can upload and image onto it as well.  Warning: Do not proceed to buying the flag or you will owe well over $100.
Mr. Wilkoff: Seal Creator: Use this resource to create the emblem of your utopia. A great way to get ideas for the environment of your utopia is to create a matching seal.
Jeremy: Coat of Arms Creator  You can make your own Coat of Arms then e-mail it to yourself but in order to in bed it in the sight you need to take a screen shot of it with a mac.
Aaron: Currency Creator- Create your own money for your utopia.
Mr. Wilkoff: Newspaper Clip Generator: Use this resource in order to quickly show the newspaper of your Utopia. You can create news-flashes or daily events through this resource if you would like.
Someone in Core 2: Interactive Timeline will let you set up a series of dates and it will create a document for you to attach to the wiki. Great for origins or the history of a particular element of your utopia.
Iblade: Timeline creator will allow you to create a visual timeline of 6 events in your utopia. Check out Moderno's for an example.
Mr. Wilkoff: Collaborative quiz Creator allows you to your own quiz with pictures and right and wrong answers, but the best part is that you can have other people add to it if you want, making your quiz collaborative.
Cristina:  Terrange-it:   It's a landscape creater that creates mountains plains and water.  Click to download.
Taylor:  Create A Flag Not that many choices but it works! You have to take a screen shot for it to work.
Shelby: City Creator Design the layout of your city.

Media

Jonah: screen cast-o-matic
Austin:  Empressr: This resource will allow you to put together a lot of different types of media (images, movies, audio) into one presentation that can be embedded onto your wikipage. It may be easier than Splashcast; Check it out.
Rachel S: YouTube video (you must do this at home.)Okay there is no link but create a video upload it on YouTube and go to insert then video then Youtube and then insert the URL of your video. For an example of what you can do click here....
Mr. Wilkoff: Splashcast: Use this resource if you would like to put video, audio, and pictures all together and then embed them onto your wiki page. This resource is a little more complex than some of the others, but you can create something really unique with this one.
Mr. Wilkoff: Gcast: Use this resource if you would like to use your cell phone to record a podcast of your Utopia. Give us a tour of what you would see in your utopia. "Interview" someone who lives in this society. Ask someone to describe how their society is different than yours.
Allie: Text To Speech Translator Use this resource the have a character say your text of choose in any language. Then, embed it onto your webpage to have the character explain things in your Utopia.

Presentations

Austin:  Spresent:Use this resource to create "High Definition" presentations online with animated clipart and a whole lot more. These presentations are way better than PowerPoint, and easier to create.
Mr. Wilkoff: Google My Maps: Use this resource to create an interactive map on your wikipage. You can put multiple pins in the map and give some information about each one. Unfortunately, you can only create maps of the real world. So, if your utopia is someplace other than earth, you will have to use another resource for creating your own map.
Mr. Wilkoff: Create a Warning Sign: ables you to create a warning sign for your page.
Mr. Wilkoff: Slideshare: Use this resource if you would like to create a PowerPoint of your Utopia summarizing its ideals. This site will allow you to embed that powerpoint into your wiki page, so that your reader will not have to download the PowerPoint file in order to enjoy your work.
Taylor:  generator - Fancy animations/pictures (Zevariax helped find this)
Austin:  Zoho Show: This resource is for creating PowerPoint-like presentations on the web. It is easy to use and you can embed them directly into a webpage.
Mr. Wilkoff: Bubblr: We have used this one before, but I thought I would remind you that creating a interactive comic strip of your utopia is a great way of introducing some of the finer points (hopefully not just geography either).
Carsten:  Sign generator
Dillion:  New Sign Maker: Amzing for making seals with your own picture
Matt:  Cool text creater Create logos. Great for Cool headlines. You can also create buttons.
Even:  Logo/Text Maker Create logos and do cool things with text.
Carsten:  Street sign generator
Carsten:  Hollywood sign generator
Mr. Wilkoff: Ninja Text: ables you create a animation that writes text for you.
Lewie:  Wizard Words What you do is type in any word or phrase in the box and the wizard man will "spell" it out.
Directions:
  1. Click on the link and it will take you there.
  2. Find the box that allows you to type in your phrase.
  3. Click generate when you are finished typing your phrase.
  4. Copy the code that you generated.
  5. Paste the code into the "T.V." button on discovery utopias, click save and your done.

Cody:  Planet Creator: This resource is slightly hard to use. You create a planet for your utopia. Cody made the directions! Dude9Coolio found the site!
Directions:
  1. Click on the launch "Planet 10"
  2. Wait for it to load then skip intro
  3. Click on world creator and follow the instructions. Designing your world along the way.
  4. When your planet goes into the solar system, press the pause button, and take screen shot of the planet.
  5. Here is how to take a screen shot
  6. Microsoft: Next to your F12 key is a print screen key. Click on that and then later paste it.
  7. Macintosh/apple: Click on the Shift+apple+4 and a target like thing will appear. Click and drag to make a box over the object you want to take a picture of. A picture will appear on the desktop of your picture.
Angus:  Web Page Counter : This site sets up a hit tracker on your wiki so you can see how many times it has been viewed!
Directions:

1. Create an account on the link above. Use your blog name and you password. Set up a Mailinator if you don't want to use your real one.
2. Select the type of clicker you want for your Utopia.
3. Copy the code and paste it into the Embedded code layout (T.V. button).

Kevin:  Color Codes

Mr. Wilkoff: Create a Graph: ables you to create graphs for your page.
Mr. Wilkoff: Bitty Browsers: Use this resource if you would like to include another webpage within your wikipage but there isn't any other way of embedding it. This may be a last resort for getting other content onto your Utopia pages, or it could be a way for you enhance your utopia with more rich content.
Dillon: http://www.3dhomedecorator.com/ click on Interactive Room designer

Examples

The BritLit Podcast: This example is of reactions to two utopian/dystopian novels, Animal Farm and 1984. Listen to them and think about how you can react to your utopian/dystopian novel in audio form.




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