Tagxedo, An Improved Word Cloud Creator

If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I am a big fan of wordle.  I’ve posted about it several times, most recently here. There are other word cloud generators out there, and they all fulfill their own little niche. There is a new one that was recently [...]

Wordle Down, 12 Other Word Cloud Generators

It seems the wildly popular and teacher friendly web based text cloud generator site is down.  There is a copyright issue with the name “Wordle” and while the issue is being taken care of you won’t be able to access http://wordle.net There are other places where you can creae “Word Clouds.” While wordle is  my [...]

Fe Fi Fo Fum, I Hear Kids Books Read By An English Mum

Original Source: iLearnTechnology Blog Online Children’s Stories: AudioStories.Com AudioStories.Com has a collection of children’s stories read aloud.  I appreciated the ‘classic’ nature of the selections and the ease with which I was able to listen to a story. I chose “Jack And The Beanstalk” and it was read by a narrator with a lovely British [...]

The President’s Speech

Did you miss the presidential address yesterday? Would you like to show it again in the future? Would you like to have your students read the text of the address? Click here for the link to the text and video of the speech. Take this opportunity for some government lessons: Click here for some kid-friendly [...]

Wordle Again

Wordle http://wordle.net I have blogged about Wordle before, but I recently came across an interesting presentation: Thirty-Eight Interesting Ways to use Wordle. Enjoy!

Wordle For Community Building

http://wordle.net While catching up on some old Tech and Learning editorials one of them mentioned how they were surprised that Wordle hadn’t gained more popularity. I know I have mentioned the site in Tablet Talk a few times, but I think that at the begining of the year it bears a little more attention in [...]

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