Tonight's presentations on webstes were on Wordle and Timetoast. I'll begin with Wordle. Wordle is plain fun. During the presentation I couldn't think of anything interesting to type to make my word cloud, so I just used the example of a poll of a class's favorite colors. I had fun playing with the word clouds that came up from that. I could see this being a great site for classroom polls and specific vocabulary that is important in certain readings.The presenters mention a website called tagxedo, which I enjoy more than Wordle, and when in the classroom I will most likely use Tagxedo rather than Wordle.
Timetoast is a site that makes timelines. This site would be most useful for social studies, but it can be use for history of anything. There were a few drawbacks to timetoast, such as it makes every bubble pop up when you are just browsing, and it also has a limit to how far back in time you can go. One example that was on the site in the popular categories was a timeline of Disney movies. These included links to sites where the information was given. I feel that this Timetoast would be a good idea, as our presenter said, to use as an interactive way to build a timeline in a class that included a Smart Board. This way, the whole class would be engaged in a certain project and they would build it together.
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