During Tuesday’s Trainer of Trainers Inservice on Gradual Release of Resposibility, I couldn’t help but notice the exclamations of interest in the Wordle produced slide. I knew about Wordle and have played around with the application but I had forgotten about this fun Web 2.0 technology application until today. With Wordle you may design your own word set or if you are in a hurry you can find one made by another user.
Another cool tool for school is Visuwords. With Visuwords students and teachers can explore words, build vocabulary and reinforce parts of speech. Although I haven’t tried it, I think Visuwords would be great displayed on a Smartboard. Other applications that assist with vocabulary are Wordnik and Ninja Words.
Free flashcards programs and quiz programs to assist students with studying are Cobo Cards, Flashcard Exchange and Quizlet. Creately allows the user to create diagrams that would be useful for studying and remembering.
If you know of other great Web 2.0 tools that will help our students study or remember, send me the links and I will share them here giving you a shout out in the process.
My next post will cover understanding . These are all tools that were shared by Samantha Penney in an interactive Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid. I’ll be sharing more from this wonderful resource later.
Image from: M. Fisher 2009 digigogy.blogspot.com