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

for Kate

using Neoformix

Classroom idea: Student names on Bulletin board

Spell with Flickr http://metaatem.net/words/


Classroom idea: Words as Art, Clever banners

a dream in web 2.0

This morning I recalled a dream from last night. I was charged

with some task, I cannot recall quite what it was, but it involved fd Flickr Toys and generating! I was having a very hard time deciding which tab to choose because my task required I generate something actually physical that had to be yellow and brown plaid. I had to laugh when I woke up!