 Hey guys, we're gonna get started in just a moment. I Thought it would be fun to do some mad libs together So let's see how well you remember your parts of speech. I've made my own mad live at wordblanks.com and We'll be able to fill up our fill up our own Monkey everybody always picks monkey for a word dump it so Let's do this We'll see how our story comes together. So now here's the thing whenever I do mad libs When I do it with students or friends or adults the more descriptive and specific your word the better Try to think of a word that nobody else would think of because that will make our story turn out better So adjective already you see clunky. That's a good one clunky. It is so Next is a noun Which would be a singular noun? Okay, let's see. I'm gonna have some choices here. So we have gorilla. We have penguin apricot Hey there. Um, how about apricot? I Like the other ones too. So a noun Tennis Bracket great. Okay, so now I need a plural noun I see seashell so we could do seashells All right, and an adjective that's their Francis Drake. Well that groovy. I like that one. That is a that's a groovy word Let's see now a number 345 all right And we're back to a noun who glittery keep that in mind if we need another adjective Huh lips. That's a good one. Let's see what other ones we get and I'll choose one goat wheel I think that I think the lips might have it puppy squash All right, puppy. That's that sounds cute. Okay, so We're about halfway through And I need a plural noun. Oh Good ones. I see astronaut lamp Pluto a good theme for today. We're gonna need a name in a little bit John So we remind me about Pluto. So plural noun Paris root of Vegas Lemurs, okay. Oh, I like lemurs. There we go. Okay now a noun Singular noun and try to think of something nobody else would think of that makes our mad libs turn out better Root of Vegas come up again. I might have to choose that one Whoo a popsicle. I like that pop Now some sort of event event a holiday Summerfest Linda. That's a good one a funeral a Boston Tea Party. All right. Yes, boss Boston Tea Party it is and now I need a plural noun Birthdays marathon. These are all good an ad camp summertime Inauguration. Yes. Yes. Yes Okay, so we're looking for it for a plural Arrows I like it Camp plug-and-play. Yeah, that's a good event logs Logs I might go with that one. Ooh Donuts that's another plural noun that's great boxes flippers So many choices pizzas. Yes Plural noun. All right, I think I'll go with pizzas. We're back to a singular noun We could do just jelly bean back where candles Possibly Zebras Stick candles. All right now. I need a first name kind of a funny first name would be great Candy I Don't think he meant that as a name John, but I think I think that would be a funny first name to put for this All right, so that leaves us with a couple of adjectives and a couple of numbers Francisco and see more of you good names You guys are good at these you guys are really good Towering okay Now we need two numbers and an adjective. I like fuzzy Paltry those those are Some great word choice or salty, okay, so I see a number I see 93 all right, let's go with salty and 87 no for 463 no one I'm gonna do 1001 Okay, so now we'll be able to play it. So this this will be neat It'll work the way it works is that I typed a story And then I went in and I clicked words to that will replace and now it's going to put our chosen words into a story Here it goes. And of course our story is about periscope Okay, so let's see how this turned out. You think something's funny give it hearts so Here's what you guys came up with I don't know if I can do it so you can see it so well on the screen But that's why I'll read it When he wells it Okay, that's funny. The one thing about word blanks is that there are a lot of ads that appear So I'm gonna try not to hover over it. Okay, so there's a clunky new free app called periscope Periscope works on phones iPads and Android devices It's designed so that anybody can broadcast live to the apricot If you follow someone on periscope, then you can receive a tennis racket each time they go live While viewing a periscope broadcast in the app you can type in comments You can also tap the screen and little seashells will float up the right side Broadcasters like to ask for seashells seeing them float up on the screen makes them feel groovy Anyone can replay a broadcast for 345 hours after it was live No kidding. Where is your tennis racket? After that the recording is no longer available for viewing online However, you can choose to save a broadcast to your puppy roll Unfortunately that saved video does not have comments and lemurs You know What you might see happening lot or you who knows what you might see happening live on periscope You might see someone broadcasting from their popsicle You might see someone speaking at a Boston Tea Party You might see a teacher showing his favorite pizzas You might see a geek sharing her favorite candle tricks Or her favorite candles trick. You might see some guy named candy read Mad Libs You just never know what you might see, but you're likely to see some towering camera work For an app that seems to be all the rage you might be surprised at its rankings today right now It's the 93rd top salty app in Apple's App Store, and it's number 1001 in the Google Play Store So a great job everyone for helping us put together this fun Mad Lib It was Pretty fun. Let's see. I get some there you go Even Tony reading bar ones, that's right Hey Wendy, how are you doing? How's that conference going? so these Mad Libs like I said I made at a website called word blanks.com and it's kind of full of ads, but It's pretty pretty neat. I like that You could use this several different ways if you're a teacher in the classroom. I loved making Mad Libs I just take a Usually I do it as a preview something we're gonna read in our science book later that day I would take that paragraph paste it into a Mad Lib and replace, you know, certain words And then it was a really fun for students to know after lunch or in the morning Kind of have that that funny paragraph But then later on in the day when we read the real paragraph they really got into it It's like oh remember what it said this morning. Oh, that's what it's really supposed to say So that's pretty fun You could take you know a news article from from that day and and make that into your very own Mad Lib You can also be a way for students to get to know each other They they can write a paragraph about themselves and turn it into a a Mad Lib kind of story And that would be fun to get to know each other that way so Yeah, definitely Kim steal it steal steal it all you want. That's that's that's what it's for so Wendy's at the BLC conference in Boston, and I heard you practicing your Boston accent and you have a very southern accent usually so That was kind of fun to see that on on periscope Wendy. Yeah If you for some reason want to redo this Mad Lib at wordblanks.com You can share whatever you create as a URL, so I've shortened it in case we're interested So it's that Tony V dot me slash blanks and that will redirect you to the Mad Lib that we just filled in together So if you really wanted to pick your own words because some of you are really great at this you could play this again and again and again and That site was at wordblanks.com to make your own and for the one I just read Tony V dot me slash blanks So thanks for joining me tonight and as always I will see you later