Emerging Technologies III

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Hello!! For my third emerging technology i used mixbook! I just wasted my whole day on it; i love it! Essentially Mixbook is an online scrapbooking website. The nice thing is though is that Mixbook is free to join and to share with people online. The site is not completely cost free. You can actually have the scrapbook that you have made, created and sent to you. Pretty cool! Depending on the size of the book you choose and such the price differs. I think for the average size its like $13.99 or maybe 12, which isn't a bad price for the amazing stuff you create with this site. So i created my own mixbook account. The first thing you do is choose the free account, then you will get started. The first order of business to be done when making a scrapbook is choosing a theme. It is soo nice! They have themes from all four seasons to weddings, school, graduation, baby books, holidays, and colored themes. There so many more specific choices than what I'm listing. What is so nice about choosing a theme is that someone already created a template for you. They chose the back round, layout, text boxes, and stickers. This makes it incredibly easy for newcomers like me to use mixbook. You'll notice once you start editing your book you can change all the original formatting that template had. For example, if you wanted a pink back round on a certain page instead of the blue that came with the theme selection, you can easily change it. I chose the spring theme because the book was so pretty and it kind of made sense haha. Well i started finding pictures online, they didn't download right, blah blah long story short.. I ended up making a scrapbook about me :). You can upload pictures on to mixbook very simply. They walk you through the directions and give you a options of taking pics stored on your computer, or from facebook, myspace, photobucket, sites like that. Once your photos are uploaded they generously give you the options of ordering your pics by the date taken, date uploaded, and another. It made my job so easy! My book is in chronological order because mixbook did it for me! Anyways you just drag and drop your pictures from the sidebar to whatever pages. If you want to have more pics than that page offers you can go to the layout tab and choose, no pics, one pics, 2-3 and so on, and they will provide different layouts to choose from. Also, this is where i had TROUBLE. To add a textbook, you click on layout and it is the yellow button at the top, add text box. It took me forever to find that. The next tab is back round. Then finally are the stickers. This includes borders, stickers anything to decorate. Not only do you get the stickers from that theme but if you're looking for something specific you can add stickers from other theme books. You can also upload your own. When you are finished creating you click publish. That's where you can order a physical copy of your book or click to share online. You can choose your privacy settings of who you want to view your book. Next your profile will show up and list all the books you've created; you can create more than one. At the bottom is a share button where you can upload your mixbook to facebook, myspace, blogger, etc. This site is great for students to. Like google docs, you can add people to your account as editors and many individuals can work on one project. Mixbook saves the working hand a lot of time! Once i created a scrapbook for a friends birthday, it took me a whole weekend. I did more today than i did that whole weekend. All your photos are right here. No printing, cutting, pasting, and glue mess. It's also nice because distant family and friends can see what you have been up to conveniently. You don't have to wait until Christmas to show them pictures from Halloween. I loved this site. I'm definitely keeping the account i created because i love doing projects like this. I would strongly encourage watching a video tutorial to learn, and creating an account! It's very practical. I hope you enjoy my mixbook!

P.s. the site is www.mixbook.com ... GO CREATE!