Hooray! Friday!

We started out today by watching the trailer for The Buried Life – Riley has the book in case you want to borrow ideas for your own BucketList.

Then, we used our obituaries and created a word cloud with Tagxedo.

AHOY – Here are the step-by-step instructions.

• Click create.
• Click the little arrow next to fonts and click USE LOCAL FONTS
• Click Load
• Copy and paste your Obituary text
• Hit submit

Then, make it pretty.

You can choose the theme – which is the colors.

Change the shape by clicking – SHAPE

Play with the options – make it pretty!

When you get it just like you like it, save it.

Save it as a 4 MP jpg.

Then, go to the Carpe Diem folder in LMS and download the diorama. Replace my word cloud with YOUR word cloud, answer the three questions, and change the color of the sides to match your word cloud. Drop this off in the drop box. I’ll print in color and make the foldable for you!

Then, you download the #Carpe Diem #YOLO item in LMS. Make sure you do this Firefox or Chrome – if you use IE, you can’t open the file. This is dealing with hash tags on Twitter. #cool

A hash tag is something that help search engines in Twitter and Instagram. All of the things in that file are tweets that I found that generally have #carpe_diem or #yolo. Click the little white arrow so you can select things.

Using your mouse, drag the tweets to the hashtag you think they belong to. If you think a tweet is YOLO, drag it #yolo line.

Save, and turn in.

The last thing we did was the blog post Carpe Diem Closure. Make sure you COPY your answer before you hit submit, otherwise, you run the risk of losing all that you have written.