Thinkfinity, Wordle

21st century learners don't hand in their work, they publish for an authentic audience!

Thinkfinity and Connecting the Dots with Peter Reynolds


Podcast about Thinkfinity
 Thinkfinity.org is the Verizon Foundation's free, comprehensive program and online portal to 55,000 educational resources, It offers standards-based, grade-specific, K-12 lesson plans and other student interactives provided in partnership with many of the top education and literacy experts and organizations in the U.S. This site is well worth looking at, though be prepared, it will absorb your attention for hours! The interactives are especially useful.

 It is an enormous site with fantastic reliable resources from all content areas for teachers. You can search by keyword and grade level for lesson plans and interactive activities.
Over View of Thinkfinity
Thinkfinity

Now go to this page: http://www.thinkfinity.org/partners.aspx
In the search tool try selecting one of the partner sites like ReadWriteThink by typing ReadWriteThink as the subject (or the name of any of the other sites). Select 'interactive' as the resource type and your grade level. Then have fun exploring.
Wordle
 Wordle: Engaging the Digital Generation
Click on the image to see a 21st Century Learning Wordle. Wordle is a tool for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Suitable for students of all ages and professional development.

EdTech Tips for Teachers - Wordle from SimpleK12 on Vimeo.


How to Video: Creating Word Clouds with Wordle
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Create Your Own Wordle

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