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Fellow CRS espcrs twittered this site which includes 14 interesting uses for Wordle in the classroom:
14 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle
Wordle is perfect for those visual learners who may find it easier to draw connections and semantically process information by viewing words in tag cloud form. The slideshow created by Dai Barnes provides great examples of using Wordle to create quizzes, conduct author studies, improve essay writing, and facilitate student self-evaluation of performance or work.
Voicethread would be an amazing way for art students to share their critiques and break out of the conventional way of teaching the class. Art teachers can scan student work to display for students to critique (amazingly the kids love seeing their work blown up when they can see all the nooks and crannies of their talents, but a voicethread could take it to the next level.
Example of a voicethread for art history by Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Her blog MPB Reflections-21st century teaching and learning is a great resource for instructional technology and art instruction.
Some other sites:
The art teacher’s guide to the internet blog (with many other great links):
Art History in Just a Minute (short instructional videos!)
Wikispaces now offers educator accounts which allow you to create student accounts with emails. You can set up the student accounts and customize the privacy settings. This can allow you to create a wikispace site with allowing a student to each have their own “page” on the site. They can edit their own page, but not each others. Here are the instructions.
What can wikis allow you to do? Here are some ideas I got from Gayle Hartigan, a fellow Computer Resource Specialist at Tallwood High School. She presented wikis at the recent VSTE Conference:
Classroom management
Research
Creative writing
Collaborative project work within classes and outside of your school -think global
Foreign language practice
Discussion boards
“fake wikipedia pages”
You can even set up wikispaces for your classes for digital portfolios of student work. What a 21st century method for kids to manage and display their work.
