Today I am excited to say that I created an Animoto account and created my first Animoto video! So much can be conveyed through pictures and that is what Animoto does- shares the importance of a topic through pictures. The pictures I selected all have relevance to our current topic of slavery. Animoto can be used to make a video about any topic and can include video clips as well as captions for the pictures that are added. This can be used to introduce a new topic to the class or to prompt a discussion about the relevance of the pictures to the topic we are learning about. This is a great new tool for us to explore and continue to work with as the slavery unit progresses. Below is the link to the video I created:
http://animoto.com/play/Ouhj2JNS0WuWvKsRepVTVQ
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Educational Value of Wordle
Hello all!
Welcome to Miss Dube's Blogger page as part of our WebQuest! Today for the first time, I used Wordle to create an interesting image using all the important words from our unit about slavery. It may just seem like a jumble of words but it is so much more than that! Wordle picks out the words that you've used the most when you paste a passage so you know which words are the most important or which words you've used too much if the words are not as important to the subject. This might be a good way to proofread and summarize the main ideas of an essay. Wordle is also a good way to spice up a presentation: putting a Wordle image into a presentation would be a fun way to prompt discussion. It is also an interesting image to help break-up a presentation that may contain a lot of words. Please give it a try! It is worth the experience!
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Welcome to Miss Dube's Blogger page as part of our WebQuest! Today for the first time, I used Wordle to create an interesting image using all the important words from our unit about slavery. It may just seem like a jumble of words but it is so much more than that! Wordle picks out the words that you've used the most when you paste a passage so you know which words are the most important or which words you've used too much if the words are not as important to the subject. This might be a good way to proofread and summarize the main ideas of an essay. Wordle is also a good way to spice up a presentation: putting a Wordle image into a presentation would be a fun way to prompt discussion. It is also an interesting image to help break-up a presentation that may contain a lot of words. Please give it a try! It is worth the experience!
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