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Wordle

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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, [...]

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Tags: Resource · art · design

Color in Motion

October 1st, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Spanish · art · color · design · flash

Origami in the Classroom

September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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, [...]

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Tags: Fun · Japanese · Modern Languages · art