TagCrowd

Tagcrowd http://tagcrowd.com/ lets a reader "visualize word frequencies" from websites and uploaded papers.

Classroom ideas
1) Students can upload their work and judge the pattern revealed.

Here is the tagcloud created from Carondelet's home web page

2) Students examining bias , debate, marketing could get a visual representation of word usage
3) words as art

Tumblr

Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/ is a mini-blogging tool that is very easy to use.

Classroom ideas:
Have students create biography presentations on a Tumblr.
The dashboard itself
provides great ideas on what they might include- text-photo-quote-links to good sources -music that captures the biographee's spirit- a video on person or place or time in history.

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is an graphic organizer tool that lets you create brainstorm outlines online.

Classroom idea
1) Brainstorm research possibilities
for a research assignment










2)

Use with students as a way to organize her essay