Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thing #6
The choices were many, I searchedfoods, fun stuff, and widgets (I still am uncertain as to what a widget is, I am sure that will be covered soon in one of these "things" :) The fun stuff included Hairmixer.com - you could import your picture and mix it with a celebrity's hairstyle, the options were many! After you found the exact hairdo you could email it to friends, make a T shirt with the photo and many other products. This would be a fun project to do with your friends or do to your friends! The second site I went to was Onesentence.org - this site invites you to tell in one sentence and only one sentence a true story. This would be a great project to have the students be able to chose their words carefully and chose descriptive words in order to tell their own life event. Reading some of the ones that had been posted was hilarious. I kept going, the next site I found was Comiqs.com, I am teaching a class in the fall using a variety of comic strip sites. I hope that this class will show teachers the fun application that this tool can provide for the students in order to create their own digitial novel, (comic strip). This site was fun because you actually could import your own photos and create the storyboard. Too fun. Now I see why these sites received awards.
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Sounds like you had fun! When you mention a website in your blog, try creating a link to it. Just highlight the text and then click the link button. It will let you put in the URL so that your readers can check out those site with jsut one click.
Thank you for including the onesentence.org. I didn't have a chance to look at that web-site but I am now! I teach 4th grade writing and that would be a great way to teach precise descriptive sentences! Thanks!!
The onesentence.org would be great to use when students are learning about author's point of view. My students love being able to use the computers and because it is too difficult to look at your monitor and talk to the person next to you they stay focused longer than just in a "regular" class situation.
Also, the Comiqs.com site I have not gone to yet but will. I use comic strips cut up to have my students practice on sequential order. Looking not only in the wording but picking up on visual clues also. Hope this works out to be used as well for that skill.
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Tonya,
Comiqs.com sounds like fun and I would love to hear more about the class you are going to teach in the fall. You know I love on-line classes.
You found wonderful things. I can't wait to look at onesentence.org and the hair program. I can't wait to get on and play with my hair.
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