Thing #2

Here is my Wordle, which is actually the text from my school's website that talks about HISD's policy about non-discrimination. Boring if you stop to read it, but cool in a Wordle. We oftne assign a collage or a word wall; this is a very cool alternative. You can be creative by rearranging the positioning an size of the words and choosing color schemes.

I have used Animoto in the classroom. Last year my 9th graders used this to create video introductions of themseleves for an online collaboration project; we actually saw it first by a class from Qatar using it to do THEIR introductions. This is a very simple way to produce a video, even by very young students. My embed refused to work due to Shockwave; I am still figuring out how to add my sample, which is a video of graduation photos of my son.

I had never seen Bookr before; I found that this works better if you already have a Flickr account, which I do not. This looks suspiciously like a simple form of Powerpoint, and since I teach Powerpoint, I am a little biased. but this would be a great way to teach the concepts of storyboarding, or how to organize thoughts in a logical, sequential manner. It would also be good for young writers or non "techno" folks to create their own book.