First, let me say that its been a crazy week at work because of a new email server that we have set up. Our old server and software was old. The software was about 8 years old and while it gave us a great service it just wasn't cutting it anymore. So we opted to upgrade and have been busy touching every machine in the district to get it working correctly. Its been a long week!
I've found several cool tools that are just fun to play around with like Wordle. Building word clouds and just goofing off on the web.
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Hey, Roman,
Glad you are back! We were worried about you!
I really like the timeline tools as well. I'm sure I would use those in the classroom, and I'll probably try to incorporated a timeline activity into my 6200 project. I was not familiar with the timeline tools until I took this course.
I like Mindomo, too. It's a good alternative to some of the other flowchart-type applications that are available. I think it would be useful to me in the classroom (teaching) as well as in some of the courses I am taking at UGA.
Hope things settle down for you soon at work!
Lenrose :)
Roman-
I understand those busy weeks at work. Being in education, they seem to happen all too often! Anyway, I agree with you on the "coolness factor" of the three tools you mentioned. Like Lenrose mentioned, Mindomo sounds like an applicable tool for the classroom. Of course, Wordle is a lot of fun, and the xtimeline program would work well with many of the GPS we cover. Well, on to more blog entries!
Mark
I plan to checkout Mindomo to see how it compares with Bubblus. It's wonderful to have access to these types of tools on the web!
I just checked out xtimeline too. I loved that you can change views to one that provides more information in an easy to see sequence. This looks very useful for students. I wonder if there is an ad free version for educators.
Wordle is fun, but it can also be educational. Try typing in a speech or famous document and you will see the most important topics of these items.
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