Thing #20

I used Bubbl.us to creat a overview of Chapter 5 for my FST students.  I'm thinking I may use this as an intro to the chapter instead of looking at the same stuff in an outline form.
http://screencast.com/t/fHuOVTt5H

I think there are many students would like to see how this all is connected visually.  I think I would also create another Bubbl.us graphic to show the assignments and the quiz and test for the chapter.

In keeping with the Chapter 5- Trigonometry theme, I created a graphis in Tagxedo with vocab from the chapter.  http://screencast.com/t/YQjTTKBJa I'm not real sure that I will have much use for this site in my math class, but for an English class or science class this would be a riot.  I do think I can assign something like this for an extra credit assignment.  I would like to introduce my students to both Wordle and Tagxedo.  I am going to go back and play with the same list of words in Wordle and see which one I like better.
Tagxedo offers a ton of varietry in their shapes, but Wordle does seem to  be a bit easier to use for the novice.  The problem for me is that I didn't have a large enough word bank.  I think I'll have to try a word document that is longer just to see what it does with it.

Opps, I tried to embed the Wordle art just for the fun of it, but it didn't go where I wanted???   One thing I noticed in both of these is that do not incorporate numbers...unfortunately, an awful lot of what I do does involve numbers.  You could spell the numbers out, but it's not going to look the same.  The Wordle did type 2x, so when the number is next to a letter it will show up.

I can not say that I will use these fun tools very much in my class, but I will for sure be using them for fun and I will be sharing these sites with my kids at home as well as fellow staff members at school.