I decided to experiment with Yodio. Yodio allows people to put audio with pictures. It is basically a slideshow of pictures plus your voice.
I think this would be useful in a classroom especially with a substitute teacher. I could make a slideshow and add my voice to make sure the students would get the information I needed them to know. I think it would also be a fun activity to get to know students.
Yodio is really easy to use! After signing up, just upload pictures, call in the audio, and put them both together! I really like that it allows users to call in the audio part. It was so simple! You just call, talk, and hang up. It is then sent almost instantly to Yodio to use.
I read several other blogs before I decided to use Yodio. It seemed to be pretty popular for this assignment. I found everybody's tips to be helpful, which might be why I thought the program was so simple to use.
The hardest part was deciding what picture I was going to use and what I was going to say. I had to record my audio clip eight times before I settled for the last one! Finally, I wrote down the points I wanted to include so that I didn't forget what to say. That is my biggest tip to everyone!


So, check out my first Yodio! :)

http://yodio.com/yo.aspx?CardId=XQz6nSgUfX6gezOeYvUTB3

Pizza for Breakfast

Sitting outside, seventy degrees, Saturday, no work, and eating pizza: seems like a good morning to start a blog! (Not that I really have a choice!) I'll be honest, I never wanted to start a blog. I always thought of blogs as a sort of online diary, and why would I want to make that available to everyone?! But I guess every person gets to decide what kind of information he of she will share. As of now, I just plan on using this for class. But who knows, maybe I'll love it and become a blogger! (Doubtful) This site made it pretty simple to set up a blog. The instructions were very easy to follow. I actually felt like I was setting up a new Myspace profile! There were so many options with all the fonts and font colors! I really didn't know how to decide. So I chose not to think to hard about it. I recommend just choosing your favorite colors, that way everyone will learn a little bit about you just by the design you choose. When I saw the word 'widget' I didn't have a clue what that meant! But if you click on it you get very helpful descriptions of all the options for widgets. I placed my picture on my profile as a widget. It was very easy to just upload it from my computer. Maybe someone could tell me how to post other links on my page?

So enough about creating a blog, I'm sure you really just wanted to learn more about me! :)
My name is Amanda! Some call me Mondo, Mander, and two special boys call me Auntaman!
Well I come from a really awesome town where Wal-Mart is somewhere to go on a Friday night. Exciting, right? No, not at all. I spend as much of my time as possible in other towns. I like doing all the normal stuff, going to movies, bowling, hanging out with friends, and go skydiving. I don't really have much free time these days. I work at my parents' pizza place, Gramboli's Pizza, and coach a high school competitive dance team. This past year I went for one of my goals, to be a Colts Cheerleader. I made it through four out of five rounds. I'm pretty happy with that as my first try! I will be trying out again next year! Speaking of the Colts, I'm a season ticket holder. I absolutely love going to Colts games! (Goodbye, Lock-Out!) I come from a huge family and I love it! My sisters, brother, and cousins are my best friends. I don't count on my friends for much of anything. They've all let me down too many times. I have an amazing boyfriend, Ryan, who I'm going to marry one day. :) I just transferred to IUPUI this past spring. I was at IU Bloomington, but missed my family too much. I really enjoy being at IUPUI now!
Well, lucky for me I get to spend my Saturday with my nephews, Brysen, he's six, and Mason, just a month old!
To learn more about my fabulous life, find me on FaceBook!