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Kidblog

                       Blogs are another kind of website 
The word 'blog' is short for weblog - a personal web page where you can write about anything   you want: your life, your family, movies you like, your opinions on teaching...anything
The video below explains how you start :
 

 What is it?
Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school
teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog.               
  Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all the publishing activity.  
                   
 What are the benefits?

It's free and simple
 It is easy to create a digital classroom environment
       Students do not need e-mail addresses, the teacher sets up all accounts   
Students practice and improve their writing skills and spelling
 
Kidblog site also provides students with blogs of their own
  
 Kidblog is a place to interact with other students     

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Voicetread

Are you familiar with VOICETREAD?

  It is a fun tool to use!

I ´d like to share what I created for my lesson on fairytales:



Voicetread tool is really cool!



I love it! It allows creativity!

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Tok Box

How to use tokbox for video conferencing?

Tokbox.com- It allows you to set up a video chat channel in seconds.

Learn  how to use tokbox by clicking  here!

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Bubble Joy

Sharing a GREAT site- BubbleJoy
 
Do you know this site?
 
The world may be getting small, but it ´s still big enough that you don ´t always get to see and talk with others directly.

BubbleJoy enables you to quickly create and design custom video cards that are easy to share with others by simply using your webcam.
-it ´s FREE
-it ´s EASY to use
-it ´s CREATIVE
- it ´s good for practicing SPEAKING and LISTENING
 
it ´s a lot of FUN!
 

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Create a Graph

Do you love graphs?


Here are some beautiful interactive sites to create graphs with your students:

Simple Survey by Teacher LED:
Choose a topic (transportation, pets, TV, or food) and create a tally chart, pie graph, or bar graph with the data you collect as a class.












Create A Graph:
Create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs.











Make a Pictogram:Make a pictogram using images of flowers, people, cars, stars, boats, blocks, coach, bikes, trains, and computers.  You can change the color of the images, as well.









How Far Away Do You Live? by I-Board:Create pins with your students name and place it on the graph to show how far away each child lives from school.











Make image labels for your students and graph their birthday months.







Graph your students ´ favorite snacks.












Graph your students ´ favorite toys and activities.












Create your own tally chart, pie chart, bar chart, or pictogram by adding your own information and values.









Put in your titles and data to instantly create a pie chart.











Choose from given data to interpret the graph, or enter your own.












Choose from given data to interpret the graph or create your own.

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Using WORDLE in the classroom

Many of you may have already discovered this web site already, but for those who haven't, don't forget to check out Wordle!
I have been experimenting with wordle  lately and I  like this tool!Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.


How to use Wordle?


Alternatives

1.Tagxedo - Creator

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Example:
2.WordItOut
WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!



•Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator

◦Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables.

◦Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.

◦Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!

•Keep control of your word clouds

◦Share your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)

◦Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)

◦Download your own copy as an image file

◦Get any word cloud as a present or gift on a T-shirt, card or more...
 
Example:


3.Wordsift
 
Create your own tag cloud to visualize your text.
 

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Ten Interesting Ways to Support Spelling in the Classroom

More spelling ideas here!

Visit Interesting Ways to Use series to find more great ideas for tech integration and authentic learning activities.

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