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Cheryl Atwater Eagle Ridge Challenge Centre Coquitlam, BC Canada


 * __Week 1 for Wordle__:**



//This wordle was created using text from this year's session descriptions.//

__Ideas for using Wordle__: - students could use to - teacher use:
 * record individual or group brainstorming ... "things that come and go" (colds, mailman, seasons, etc)
 * for pre/post awareness to "see" what they learned ... wordle of "Things (words/phrases) I know about electricity" done before and after a science unit on electricity
 * to introduce themselves at the beginning of the year - for nametag, bulletin board, etc.
 * create interest in upcoming unit of study ... post on website or wiki e.g. amp, volt, energy, circuit
 * give students e-list of traits for character(s) from a novel, they paste it into Wordle and copy/paste to show the relative "strength" of each characteristic for that particular character. They could do a compare and contrast with the same traits shown for 2 charaters

Wordle Resources: > 1) Use the ~ key to keep words together. For example, if I want my name, Joan Young to appear togehter in my Wordle, I use the ~ sign in between like this: Joan~Young. > 2) Keep your text in another doc in case something goes wrong! Enough said; if you lose all of it once, you won't forget this step. That little wordle box is for "pasting" in text! > 3) There is a way to recover your words if it looks like nothing happened. Click your browser back arrow once, and it looks like it's all gone, but if you then click your browser arrow forward, it takes you back to the screen where you entered your text
 * 3 Tips from Discussion ...
 * Excellent "How Too" and school samples [[file:Using Wordle.pdf]]


 * __Week 2 for Voice Thread__:**

I teach kids that come to my Challenge Centre one morning a week. I was looking for some activities that they could do online from their classrooms during the rest of the week. I think Voice Thread might work for this, but the problem would be the delay time in me answering a question before the next one was asked. That said, it would be great if the kids would engage in a "what question should we ask next?" dialogue with each other. media type="custom" key="9989107"
 * //Any ideas as to how this would work in Voice Thread?//**

__**Ideas for using Voice Thread:**__
 * I can use it to collect comments from parents after the Challenge Centre Open House - put it on a laptop out in the hallway and get feedback as they leave. If could then be posted online.
 * This could work for journalling - each time the kids are at the centre, they take a picture representing their learning and then "comment" on it - they would then have it to "show" for Open House. (relate to growth in goal areas for the session)

__**Voice Thread resources**__: > >
 * Wiki - http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
 * Great comment sentence starters from: []
 * This reminds me of…
 * This is similar to…
 * I wonder…
 * I realized…
 * I noticed…
 * You can relate this to…
 * I’d like to know…
 * I’m surprised that…
 * If I were, I would
 * __If__ then _
 * Although it seems…
 * I’m not sure that…
 * 25 Interesting Ways to Use VoiceThread in the Classroom (a collaborative effort between Megan Palevich and @tombarrett )


 * Week 3 for [|STORYBIRD]**

media type="custom" key="10062849" __**StoryBird Ideas:**__
 * I think this should be interesting to use with the "Writers' Group". Will they like the idea of pictures as stimulation or will they feel restricted by them?

__**StoryBird Resources:**__ > **Short Link/URL:** []
 * blog entry on making the writing process digital


 * Week 4 for [[image:wetokulogo.gif width="105" height="27"]] **

__**Wetoku Ideas:**__ This tool would be great to use to have the kids do interviews with "experts" or mentors. It would also be great for the conference committee to use to talk to presenters about what their sessions were going to be, or about how they wanted the room set up, etc.

__**Wetoku Resources:**__


 * Week 5 for Blogs****:**

Wondering what Blogging "application" (is that what they are called) is the best one? What criteria to look for?

Test for WORDPRESS BLOG: ERCHALLENGE