Hi everyone.
I’d like to share a website called Wordle. Wordle makes words visually beautiful.
From the wordle website
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Take Care
Check out Wordle!
The above image is my first Wordle (made up entirely from tags associated with the mstech blog).
Tagged: art wordle, words LA
The web is a great place to publish your presentations. It’s a place where you and your students can access the information at any time and place (as long as you have an Internet connection). To learn more about online presentations click here
Tagged: "online presentations"
Wetpaint is a great site for establishing yourself on the web.
If you want to post a website on the Internet without going through the rigors of an editing program like Dreamweaver Wetpaint is your answer. It’s fun. It’s neat. It’s easy. Here’s what Wetpaint says about itself:
Wetpaint powers websites that tap the power of collaborative thinking. The heart of the Wetpaint advantage is its ability to allow anyone — especially those without technical skill — to create and contribute to websites written for and by those who share a passion or interest. To do this, Wetpaint combines the best aspects of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks so anyone can click and type on the web.
This is a great site for teachers who want to post their class work on the Internet and don’t have the time to take a website design class. The website offers interactive choices like discussion boards. They even let you turn off the ads on your site if you request them to do it. (I recommend for teachers to turn off the ads)
How much? It’s free! Go to Wetpaint Now!
Top 10 tips for building your Wetpaint site.
Do you need an image to support a lesson?
Designing a bulletin board, website, blog, or newletter requires you to find imagery to support your content. The problem is finding just the right image to support what you are trying to convey. There are websites out there that have what you need.
Here’s a link to 100 sources for free stock photo images that I think will help you.
100 Sources for Free Stock Photos.
Color. We live in a very vibrant and colorful world. Did you know that each color has a meaning? Advertisers and sign makers use colors to help us pay attention to the their message.
The Color in Motion website is one of the most creative, fun, and informative resources about color on the web. If your interested not only in the beauty of color, but it’s meaning, I recommend going to this website today. The site is Flash so be prepared for a little time while the movies are uploaded. It’s worth the wait!
The site is in both English and Spanish.
Color in Motion by Claudia Cortez
Yesterday I was delighted to be invited into our Japanese language classroom. Ms. Junko prepared a lesson on the Japanese art of Origami. Origami is the art of paper folding. The sixth graders were working on their Japanese vocabulary as they made beautiful paper foldings. The brightly colored rabbits, mushrooms, egg plants, and persimmons were proudly displayed on their class bulletin board.
If you want to try paper folding on your own…go download a template on the following site:
Readymech
China is big. It’s big in culture. It’s big in population. It’s big in it’s growing economy.
Many of the products that we use each day are manufactured in China.
What better time to begin your study of Mandarin, the official language of China.
Chinese-Tools.com is just the place to begin. It has loads of information on China. The list is long: online mandarin courses, a chinese dictionary, a chinese calligraphy studio, chinese songs and poems…and much more.
I especially liked the Chinese name translation tool. You type in your name and your name is shown in mandarin. This is really cool.
If you teach Mandarin (or just love China!), and need a website to support your teaching this might just be the site you’re looking for.
Chinese-Tools.Com
Wikispaces is offering a free Wiki page for all teachers.
What is a Wiki?
Think of a wiki as a webpage that you can make using a web browser such as Firefox. You don’t need to know any complicated HTML code. It’s as easy to make as a blog.
Teachers and students will find it easy, they will experience a short learning curve setting up and contributing to a Wiki.
You can store handouts, readings, videos, and more. This in itself will help your students gain access to your classroom from their home, or anywhere that they have an Internet connection.
How much does this powerful tool cost teachers?
It’s free.
Click below to begin your own wiki!
Wikispaces
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
This is one of the best one-stop resources for teaching I’ve found. If your looking for quality resources on a variety of curricular topics this is a great place to begin.
MERLOT has resources from Art to World Languages. This site really does offer something for every teacher in your school.
As of this post MERLOT has 17,759 resources and has 50,420 members.
The member count is a good indicator of the quality of this site.
I urge you to visit this site and become a member. It’s free.
Check out the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT). JOLT is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT
MERLOT
August 31st, 2006 by msris in Video · 1 Comment
Bring Videos into your Classroom through your Computer.
With more classrooms being fitted with computers and projectors visual media is becoming more important than ever. The teacher understands that the subject demands a good visual. The visual in the form of a drawing, photo, graph, or chart is just the beginning.
Show them instead of telling them.
Students want to see videos and flash movies showing them what is expected of them or what the concept they are learning is all about. Well, there is a website that is just what the classroom ordered. It’s called United Streaming and comes from the Discovery Channel. The website boasts thousands of videos and video clips. The videos sometimes come with teacher plans to help teach the concept with the video. The videos are easily found by using a search on the site.
It’s free…for 30 days.
The site gives teachers with a valid email account a free 30 day trial. With the reviews so far I suggest that you sign-up today.
United Streaming
