Saturday, July 24, 2010
Tool # 3
Although I really enjoyed these sites, Wordle was very time consuming for me because I did not understand how to save my "Name Jumble." I finally figured it out with a little help from my husband, but not before a lot of frustration and searching to find the answer. Randomly mixing up the names of everyone in the class and having students find their names as well as classmates could be a fun way to work on name recognition. Also, Image Chef was fun to play around with. I especially liked the animated pictures. On my blog, I used the growing flowers with the words "Come grow with us" as an invitation to parents and students to explore the site. There was another picture with a bowl of alphabet soup that I thought about using as the cover page for a class book, titled "Eating the Alphabet."
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I love your idea about creating a Wordle with all your students' names. It is a great tool for word recognition for your young ones!
ReplyDeleteMillie
p.s. Here's a little tip I learned: to keep words together on your Wordle (like "Mrs." and "Hammonds"), type a ~ symbol between them when entering them into the Wordle input box, that way they won't be separated when you create your Wordle.