Portfolio+for+Susan+Walker

 Susan Walker  smwalk@aol.com  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/susan-m-walker/2/846/474 Senior Editor, McGraw-Hill School Education Group



Week 1 Wordle
Here's my first Wordle. I included five copies of the phrase "Declaration of Independence" so it would appear larger. I expected more variation in the sizes of the words, but after removing the common words, only a few words had more than one occurrence. I wanted to create a custom pallette with shades of red and blue, but I didn't work long enough to figure that out. Because I'm an editor who doesn't have a great color sense, that's probably a good thing. I used Jing and annotated my Wordle. Here's another Wordle that could be used for grammar practice. The title "Classify and Categorize" appears 5 times, and the category names "abstract noun" and "concrete noun" appear 3 times. Students could produce their own Wordles to identify main ideas and supporting details in a reading passage. It would be handy if it were possible to apply colors from the palette when creating Wordles.

Here's a just-for-fun Wordle.

Week 2 Voice Thread
Clearly I need more information about how to make this work in my portfolio. But, I've successfully managed to create a voice thread (although I can't replay it) and save it on the voice thread site. http://voicethread.com/share/2143637/

When I made the Voicethread above I didn't quite understand the software. I created a presentation instead of presenting an image that would prompt students to respond. The Voicethread below is more in line with the software's capabilities and intent. http://voicethread.com/share/2147033/

This assignment was a little more time consuming, and I'm not sure I've got it mastered.
 * Week 3 Storybird**

Here's a link to my Storybird: http://storybird.com/books/v8rsqfq2qt/edit/ media type="custom" key="10049697"