Wordle and Voki:
In a lesson of Eco II, we learned that Wordle is a tool in which you can generate "world clouds" from texts that you provide. I think that it can be useful for teaching and for entertaining students. Both teachers and students can create eye-catching visuals based on different topics using font, colour and arrangement strategies to appropriately represent content. I consider that the best use of this tool could be that of analysing texts, teachers could select and put the main ideas of a text in a word cloud and their students can read them and also think about them. Follow this link
http://www.wordle.net/ and try to create
your own word cloud, I will show you mine, let's see if you can guess what I am
talking about:
Another
thing that we learned was that Voki is a free service that lets you create
customized avatars, add voices to them and post them to any blog, website, or
profile. Using this, teachers or students can communicate a message in a
diffent way, for example they can take a role of a character in a book. Have
some fun creating your own avatar! Follow this link: http://www.voki.com/
This is my voki, listen to what she says!:
