Very cool Web 2.0 applications

Alternatives to Book Reports using Web 2.0 apps

On this website are 5 interesting suggestions for ways students can report about a book that they read using different Web 2.0 applications.

Make Beliefs Comix
Make your own comic strips with this free and easy comic generator.  Pick faces, change emotions, make word/thought bubbles and print your comic!  Use as a group activity with an overheard projector or in a lab with each student creating their own.  Graphic stories rule!

WORDLE
Wordle is... hard to define!
From their website:
"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."

Here's a wordle I made for fiction genres:

and here's a slideshow with many very cool ideas of how to use Wordle in the classroom:

last updated:  9/28/10

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