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**E Sedgwick** **Geography/Geospatial Technologies Instructor**  **Twitter: GeoInstructor** Week 1: Wordle in Action **Wordle**

Using the text from the Geospatial Technologies Program webpage from my institution, I created this word cloud using Wordle: We work with visualization of spatial data, and so this is an interesting twist!

Some of the ideas that I may incorporate into activities in my courses are to use Wordle for:
 * Student introductions
 * Display survey results
 * Introduce key words
 * Visualize articles that students will be reading

Week 2: VoiceThread VoiceThread Using VoiceThread, I created a single-slide discussion point for my students in Physical Geography to calculate solar radiation received at the top of the atmosphere over a location of choice. For the moment, my comments/example in the VoiceThread are simply in text format as I do not have access to a microphone presently. However, I will certainly be editing this with voice!



I felt that some great ideas to utilize this tool in my courses included:


 * Posting an image of a physical phenomenon and having students discuss what the image is and why
 * Importing photos or video from student club functions and having students document their activities
 * Student course portfolios for map design, complete with narration
 * Assessment of student learning through description of a process