Website possibilities
Glogster – Glogster is a poster website. I think that the possibilities are virtually endless when it comes to this site. Students can use Glogster to make posters about books they just finished reading or movies they just watched. It’s a great project that won’t take a lot of time, and it saves the money from going to the store to buy poster board, glue, colored paper, markers, etc. Plus, it eliminates the possibility of their dog eating it. It’s quick, readily available, and best of all, free.
Gabcast – I think gabcast is an interesting website. It’s basically an audioblog that can be recorded from a telephone. This really opens the field of availability to students. There are some students that do not own a personal computer or do not have access outside of the classroom, but most families have a home phone, cellular phone, or business phone. It personalizes a weblog a little more, in the sense that readers get to hear the inflection and tone in the writer’s voice.
Wordle – I love this one. Though the possibilities in the classroom and a less than the previous websites, Wordle is enjoyable and very easy to use. It can be added to powerpoint slides, presentations, and posters. It’s just a fun way to spice up a project.
Museum Box — Museum box is very interesting. It would be a great poject for students researching a person with a lot of different aspects of their life, or places with a lot of history. It makes learning all the information fun, and it allows the students to look at a lot of pictures, breaking up the monotony of copying sentences from the textbook.
TimeRime – From what I’ve gathered, TimeRime is just an online time line. It could be used to document times in history or have events in a person’s life organized in chronological order. It would be interesting to attach to a biography.
