Murally

Link to Website:

http://beta.mural.ly/

Description of The Purpose of This Site:

"A mural is a flexible content format that aggregates media and files, ideal for group ideation and visual sharing." 

Murally allows people to create murals and be able to put content (pictures,videos,music,sound) from other websites or from your own computer. It allows you to put all your content in one big space you can also create presentations from you own mural and it allows you to express your ideas as freely as you can/want. It really allows you to visualize your ideas and makes it easy to get your ideas across from others.

 How to Use Murally:

Step 1: Create an account..it's free just put your email and choose your password you will next be taken to a screen which will let you choose a template or start with a blank mural.

Step 2:Choose a template or start from scratch with a blank mural, I choose the template called Brain Storm.

Step 3: Once you choose, a window will pop up asking you if you want to share your mural, invite friends or make it private. (Click whatever you wish to do, or just click to x button to get back to your mural)

Step 4: A video should pop up explaining how you should use Murally. 

Step 6: Dragging/dropping pictures: Murally allows you to just drag photos from your desktop, finder, and iphoto to the screen in which Murally is then you can adjust the picture by just clicking on them. (you can upload many at just one time by highlighting and grabbing them in files!)

Step 7: Dragging/dropping links: You have to click the link icon in the address bar and just drag it directly to your mural. 

Step 8: Dragging/dropping pictures from the web: Once you have your picture chosen all you have to do is drag it directly to your mural.

Step 9: Once you're done watching the video you will see an icon bar to the left of the screen.

Each icon have different uses starting from the top they are:

Web Content: You can just paste a url and drag it right on your mural.

Images: You can drag and drop pictures in this icon or upload them from you computer

Text: This allows you to put text boxes,titles, and sticky notes onto your blog, just click on them and they will show up on your blog.

Shapes: This gives you a variety of fun shapes that you can put on you blog and adjust them to you liking.

Stickers: This gives you tons of fun stickers/symbols that you can use to decorate your blog

Spaces: This allows you to put calenders, to-do lists, grids, mind maps, and many other things to you Mural with just one click you can also customize them one they are on you mural.

Back rounds: This gives you many back round to choose from that you can make your entire mural with just clicking on them.

Comment: This gives you comment bubbles that you can add to your blog with just a click.

Link to the Mural I created, there are more explanations on there!

My Mural

Examples of How My Peers Can Use Murally:

-To do presentations in new creative and fun ways

-To use as a blog, you have calenders and you can invite friends to edit and see you Mural

-Mind mapping Murally provides a big space so you can really visualize you ideas and concepts

-Just for Fun! You can put pictures of things you love and it looks great!