Thing #14

There are a lot of great resources I had never heard of before on Thing #14. A lot of them see like they would be great for upper grade levels, but I found some that would work well with first graders too. Blabberize or ToonDoo are both programs that make comics and cartoons. That would be a fun way to present information.

I went to a Promethean board conference in June and learned about Wordle in one of the sessions. Using the Activ Votes with the Promethean board, they had us text in one word that described a picture. Then they created a Wordle using our words. This is an excellent activity to use in the classroom, if you have the resources available. If you don't have a Promethean board or Activ votes you could have students write a word onto a piece of paper then the teacher could enter their responses into Wordle. This will create a student-generated resource for the students to refer back to. One interesting thing that Wordle does is if a word is listed more than once it will make those words bigger in the picture it creates.