Wordle and the Beginnings of our Flipchart

This week, we concluded our Scavenger Hunt and our slideshow practices. Using Picasa Web Albums was, as a whole, much easier than the Google Presentation. However, I think that is the case because Google Presentation is designed to be for power point style presentations rather than picture slideshows; whereas Picasa is designed specifically for photo sharing.

The second day of our class week was devoted to learning how to use the Prometheus board and designing our own Flipchart. I had no idea that the Promethean Board would be such a huge asset in the classroom! You can do anything with it and it seems like something the students would love to be able to use (create interest, even if it's for something other than the lesson itself).

So I am looking forward to working on this project. I even have a topic selected!!

This week, I was able to complete my second artifact of presented Web 2.0 Tools. Wordle is a tool that creates "word clouds". These word clouds can be of anything, whether it be vocabulary words or Dr. King's "I Have A Dream Speech" (the example from the presentation). It is very easy to use and is fun designing the cloud itself.

My Wordle Artifact - Triangle Congruence Theorems

In my artifact, I chose triangle congruence theorems as the words for my cloud. I just typed in the definitions that the McGraw-Hill Geometry book had for each theorem then added duplicates of important words (triangle, angle, side, et al.) to make those words bigger than others.

And as I said earlier, I am somewhat looking forward to our next assignment.