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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
New Website
If you go to www.delicious.com, you can create an account for free. Then you may link to me where I websites that I like. If you add websites, to yours I will probably use your ideas as well. I am user name crum30.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Websites
Here are a couple of new websites that I just picked up from my techology class.
www.wordle.net
With this website, I can have the students type in words about themselves. Hint the more important things in their lives are typed multiple times so that they appear bigger. You can do this to find out the main ideas of texts. Copy and paste a text into wordle. The words that appear most often will be the biggest.
Another way to use this is to help the students use word choice when editting their writing. They copy and paste their writing into a wordle screen. The word that is the biggest is the word that is used the most. For example, a student might have a big "like." That would mean that the student has used like too many times in their work. It is a way to help them edit their work.
It can be used to see main idea and detail as well. Here is a website to give you more ideas of how to use wordle. www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas
More sites to come!
www.wordle.net
With this website, I can have the students type in words about themselves. Hint the more important things in their lives are typed multiple times so that they appear bigger. You can do this to find out the main ideas of texts. Copy and paste a text into wordle. The words that appear most often will be the biggest.
Another way to use this is to help the students use word choice when editting their writing. They copy and paste their writing into a wordle screen. The word that is the biggest is the word that is used the most. For example, a student might have a big "like." That would mean that the student has used like too many times in their work. It is a way to help them edit their work.
It can be used to see main idea and detail as well. Here is a website to give you more ideas of how to use wordle. www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas
More sites to come!