Number 11

I just can't contain myself! I LOVE these websites! Wordle is by far, one of the greatest inventions of all time. I can think of so many different uses for this one. You could use it for spelling words, vocabulary, synonyms, adjectives, antonyms, the list goes on and on. I've seen Wordle used in my hallway since this tool was introduced. Nancy and Addie used it with their students. Students described themselves with different adjectives. They put their names in and then all the words that describe them. LOVED this idea!

Flash Card Exchange: I didn't really look into this one much, I just briefly glanced at the page, but I was talking to Sue about it at school. She told me about this being an app on the iTouch or iPhones. It got me thinking...what if I had 25 iTouches for classroom use? How cool would that be?! We could use it for SO many different activities. iTouches have several different educational applications available. I would be able to upload flash card exchange, utilize math applications, utilize the calculator feature, foreign language introductions, access to news articles and videos. The possibilities are endless.

Animoto is a neat website. I threw together a few pictures from an activity where my 6th graders helped out the 1st graders into a video. The outcome was different. I think we might be able to use this for a recap of the 6th grade's PBIS video project. It will be fun to take some pictures as we work on the project and then have the slide presentation to look back on.

Last but not least, Comiqs. Again, this would be a fun site to show the kids for personal use more than educational use. I could potentially see using this for creating a visual representation of a story or book. It could be fun to have students recreate a storyline from a book they've read.

Of all these tools, I would say Wordle is my favorite. :)