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1 What can Web 2.0 do for you? Lecia Summerer

2 Wordle is a great tool that creates word clouds. It can be used in the classroom in a variety of ways. --introduce or review vocabulary terms --practice spelling words --visually see words of poem or reflection --make a poster of students’ names

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4 Tagexedo is another program similar to Wordle. This program differs in that the word cloud can have a shape.

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6  In Glogster, your students can make a poster. Think of all the ways you could use this tool in your classroom.  But these aren’t the posters of yesterday. They can have  --video  --music  --images  --text

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8  Every Language Arts teacher will like the next few sites. Lexipedia is a visual thesaurus. It has a concept map that shows the parts of speech of each of the words attached to the entry.

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10  This web site calls itself an online graphical dictionary. It displays the entry with links to synonyms, antonyms, and other related words.

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12  Wordnik give a lot of information about a word.  --definition  --synonyms, antonyms  --images  --quotes with word used in them

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14  The next two sites are sites where students can make and share flashcards. But the cards are not just for elementary students because older students can benefit as well.

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16  Students can find flashcards already made or create their own.  They can also play games such as hangman, matching, or crosswords with their terms.

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18  Another site that both students and teachers will enjoy is making a voki. It’s actually much easier than you might think.  A voki is an avatar that you can embed on a website—think class wiki!

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20  This website lets students do all kinds of things with their digital photos.  Make a photo cube  Make a badge  Make a trading card  Make a poster

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22 Your students will thank you


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