Animoto in my classroom.

In our technology class we learned how to use Animoto. I like it! It was fun to make different videos, even if our options are limited it was still pretty fun! there is so much you can do with animoto for the classroom. You can have the students make their own yearbook, teachers can use it to introduce different materials. We can also use it for the students to introduce themselves to the class, or present their learning or understanding of the material to the class. The options are endless but we must be creative. In our class we had to make two videos one about ourselfs and the other about education. I used mine as an short introduction for my students, and the education Animoto was about effective teaching. Here are my two Animotos!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Fun with Text:

Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) and Tagxedo (http://www.tagxedo.com/) are two web-pages in with you can have fun with words! In the website the students type in words into a box, the more words the more fun it is! For words to come out bigger than others the student must type the word more than once, the more the word is repeated the bigger the word. When the students are done typing their words the student hit summit button and their creation appears! It is simple to use and fun when its done.

Both wordle and tagxedo are good resources to use for many classroom activities. In these two websites students can work on their vocabulary by memorizing words while they type them. It can also be used as an activity for the beginning of the year for students to get to know each other. Teachers can use it to introduce new lessons for the class, and the vocabulary for it. There are many ways to use wordle and tagxedo, we just have to be creative and find new ideas every day.

These are examples of what can be done with wordle and tagxedo: