Wordle #2

I still don't understand "fetch the tag." Any suggestions?

Wordle

I created my Wordle with George Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From" poem. I am co-teaching an Appalachian Literature course this summer, and George Ella is our guest speaker. I thought this would be something fun to post to Blackboard. Wordle is perfect for language arts. I need to continue playing with it because I obviously didn't understand the "fetch the tag" concept, which is why all of my links go to Google. I may ask my students to create Wordles from poems they write, or they could keep a list of favorite quotes from a novel and make Wordles from these.

Google Docs

I am trying something new with Google Docs next week. I invited each of my students to join the document in order to create one Power Point for the class. We are going to review a few concepts for the OAA this way. I used one document for all of my classes, but I invited each class to join separately. I'm not sure if this is going to work. I guess I will find out next week. The idea is that each student will clone the original slide, add his/her information, and save it to Google Docs. If this works, then it will definitely save a lot of class time.

Hot Topic

I had a very interesting conversation with some friends last night about technology. It began with how conversations have changed with the use of technology. We discussed how people will use their phones to search the internet when a question comes up in conversation. For example, you may be trying to remember the name of an actor from a particular movie when someone pulls out a cellphone and looks up the information. This conversation evolved into one about technology in the classroom. Everyone seemed to have an opinion about this, especially the concept of teaching students factual information they can access on the internet. It was fun discussing this with people who are not teachers.