Saturday, March 28, 2009

Thing 14

Wordle was a cool site that I think kids would like. I used it a little bit myself and had a lot of fun. Can't figure out how to embed my creation, but I'm going to keep playing with it to figure it out. Using Wordle could be a neat way to replace the 'all about me' activities we use in the beginning of a school year to learn more about our students. It would be neat, too, to let them create a 'wordle' describing their feelings about a particular subject (like math) in the beginning of a year, and again at the end of a year...maybe they'd feel more competent??? I like the power of the written word, anyway, and think this is a creative site to get kids thinking about themselves. I also found some neat vocab activities on Quizlet...good review of basic concepts from a variety of subjects.

2 comments:

  1. You should be able to embed just like you did the shelfari or your images. Did you get some code to paste in your page?

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  2. I could add like a widget, but I thought maybe it was supposed to be in the midst of the text. Actually, I did embed some...had trouble with the slide show from RockYou. It added like a widget, but not within the blog post, so it didn't move with the post.

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