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My name is Michelle Clark. I just started teaching a new subject last year: technology! My students are Deaf and using various technology provides a great visual resource for my class.

Week 1 - Wordle: I used Wordle in my classroom for students to introduce themselves. With English as their second language, we started by creating a list of 10-20 descriptive words about themselves. Students then printed their Wordles, posted them in the hallway, and I challenged them to guess who was who. I don't have access to my school files here at home, so I made up a new Wordle all about me for this assignment. Thanks to everyone for the great ideas of how you use it!

﻿*Wordle - what I learned from my peers that I'd like to use later: Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Here are ways to use Wordle: - making lists, brainstorming - spelling words, word familie s - review concepts, key words - describe a character - summarizing - word walls - poems - intro to a unit - making predictions <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">- discuss current events <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">- compare 2 different articles on same event & see most common words <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">- school philosophy statement <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">- describing yourself/students introducing themselves at the beginning of the year <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- key events that illustrate a trait of a main character <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- use color and font to support your expression  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- practice and learn keyboard commands like copy and paste  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- teachers can informally assess students' basic keyboard skills while observing  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- input a paragraph and see if you are overusing certain words  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">-teachers can model this process of editing. (Paste your own writing and make a Wordle to show use of words) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- previewing story vocabulary, predicting  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- math keywords to solving word problems (words that signify addition, subtraction, etc)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- student assignment of a reading text Wordle: Choose three words from the Wordle and explain how they relate to one another  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- quick class surveys (what is your favorite animal?)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- providing key words for cooperative learning  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- front page of the class wiki, teaching portfolio, unit binder  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- introducing new vocabulary (can you guess the topic?)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- pre-reading activities (first: match adjectives and words, second: write as many sentences as you can)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- listing words to insert in a text (write a story using all the words in the Wordle)  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- c <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">haracter education: students create a word cloud showing how they exemplify a trait like honesty or responsibility <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">- math units: create a word cloud of the big ideas in a math unit in their own words <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">- print unit words in black and white, students color in as that vocabulary is discussed during unit

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">*Some other goodies: <span style="color: #ff0300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">check out prezi for presentations  <span style="background-color: initial; color: #ff0300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|http://themachinegoeson.blogspot.com]  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">[|www.tagxedo.com] (similar to Wordle)

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Week 2 - Voice Thread: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Hmmmm.... this would be a good way for my Seniors to give each other feedback on their PP for the HS and Beyond Plans they need to make this year. I like the video option for Deaf students.

<span style="color: #ff0600; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">*Voice Thread - what I learned from my peers that I'd like to use later: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- use in an online class to be more interactive  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- upload PP and videos, add teacher comments/thoughts before sharing  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- students comment on content  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- teacher can jump in to clear up confusions or try to push student thinking more  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- uploaded videos can be paused for comments to be made at particular points  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- use for literature circles  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- reading fluency practice  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- sharing original work  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- use with students for peer feedback  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- student response to literature  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- teachers collaborate on a fun birthday wish  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- post student work and have PLC use it to comment  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- students explain how to do a math problem  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- show students talking about school during parent open house  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- document the water cycle  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- post an unlabeled picture of scenery, an event, etc and have students guess <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_245f2nkv3g3 (26 interesting ways to use VT in the classroom)

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Week 3 - StoryBird: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">I created this StoryBird in 2010. I was looking for ways to inspire my special needs students. This is a great way to get them started with writing. I would use this as an activity during November when we celebrate NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

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<span style="color: #ff0300; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">*StoryBird - what I learned from my peers that I'd like to use later: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- homework excuse books <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- students collaborate to create a book/poem  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- math word problems (making the literacy connection during math)  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- descriptive writing practice  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- tech class learning to create, save, upload to share

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Week 4 - WeToKu: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">I chatted with a facebook friend to test out this application. It looked fine while we were using it, but viewing on the wiki the conversation doesn't line up. It is like 2 videos running side by side with a delay. Not sure if this is a good tool for using with my students, but will play around with it more. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">media type="custom" key="10055621"

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">*WeToKu - what I learned from my peers that I'd like to use later: - interview each other as characters of a book they just read - interview each other as people we are studying in a unit - Interview other teachers on best practices in their classroom and have them for new teachers or for PD

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