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Diana Irene Saldana

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 111 views

  • Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
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    word clouds with style. Create shapes with word clouds
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    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
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    Imagine a site like "Wordle" but on steroids - Tagxedo allows you to make word clouds with images. Really cool possibilities as an ice breaker to the new school year.
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    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
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    Does it only work on PCs...I tried to run this on my mac but can't get past the home page; when I go to create, I am asked to download Microsoft SilverLight, which I do. Then, nothing else happens.
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    The site allows you to choose or upload an image to go along with the tag cloud generated.
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    Similar to Wordle but now you can make them into images!
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    Tag Clouds
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    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong?
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    The site for creating text shapes.
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    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong? Totally agree!
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    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud
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    To Gerald Carey - As an English teacher, word clouds are a great tool. Taking text from literature or even from your own students' writing and placing it in a word cloud builder allows students to find theme words because the words used the most often are bigger than the others. I've used my students' quickwrite entries about a chosen piece of text and shown them that they are all thinking through the literature the same way. It's pretty eye opening for an English class!
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    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Stephanie Fisher

Kidinfo.com - Your Guide to Famous Historical People and Famous People - 81 views

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    Great for finding famous figures by subject, excellent way to tie in biography and careers into CSO's
Andrew McCluskey

What Should We Be Worried About In 2013? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 48 views

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    "Every year Edge.org poses an Annual Question to dozens of scholars, scientists, writers, artists and thinkers. The respondents this year include the reasonably famous, such as Arianna Huffington, Steven Pinker, Brian Eno, Daniel Dennet, Sam Harris and 13.7's own Stuart Kauffman, as well as the not so famous (like me). "The 2013 question is: "What should we be worried about?" Respondents were urged to raise worries that aren't already on the public radar, or to dispel those that are" (Lombardo, NPR)
Roland Gesthuizen

Course: Posters - 185 views

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    Series of posters covering some of the most famous faces in technology from the last century, famous quotes or interesting computer facts.
Martin Burrett

My Favourite Scientist - 105 views

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    This is a great video site showing the life and careers of famous scientists. Find out about Richard Feynman, Rosalind Franklin, Gregor Mendel and even Mister Spock in interviews with scientists in their field today. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
anonymous

Free mind map library - Biggerplate mind maps and mind map templates - 82 views

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    HUGE online library of existing mind maps.  Some famous names here.  you can add your own as well.
Martin Burrett

Animated Shakespeare - 177 views

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    A superb site with animated videos of Shakespeare plays. Watch short explanations about some of the most famous plays and watch videos exploring the characters. The text that goes with the videos is useful and child-friendly. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Elizabeth Resnick

When Missoula was Young - Blog - 38 views

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    another great flat-classroom project by Cindy schultz.  Collaboration between high schoolers and 3rd graders about the history of famous people in their town from a child's perspective.
Randolph Hollingsworth

New Educational Approaches | John Boyer - 2 views

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    John Boyer, a Virginia Tech instructor who teaches a supersized world geography intro course (2,760 students) with 2 TAs - uses social media to maintain high personal touch with the students and to attract world-famous guest instructores (e.g., Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi).
Marc Patton

Poetic Power - 2 views

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    Every famous writer started somewhere. You can start here. Enter our poetry or essay contests and get published. Unlike many contests, Creative Communication is selective and you can consider it an honor if we accept your work.
Kelly Boushell

Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian | Plymoth Plantation - 85 views

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    "What really happened at the First Thanksgiving? Become a history detective and find out! In this fun, award-winning activity, kids take on the role of "history detectives" to investigate what really happened at the famous 1621 celebration. (Hint: It was a lot more than just a feast!) Along the way, they'll read a letter written by an eyewitness to the event, learn about Wampanoag traditions of giving thanks, and visit Pilgrim Mary Allerton's home. As a final activity, kids can design and print their own Thanksgiving exhibit panel."
Trudy Pretorius

Getting Started - 173 views

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    "So What exactly are Google Lit Trips? The short version is simple. Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about "real world" references made in that particular portion of the story. "
Andrew McCluskey

Werner Herzog Tackles Texting and Driving in Devastating Documentary 'From One Second t... - 82 views

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    Famous director, Werner Herzog, commissioned by AT&T films an emotional and striking documentary about texting and driving.
Roland Gesthuizen

Fractals without a Computer! | Good Math, Bad Math - 32 views

  • We tend to think of fractals in computational terms, because in general we generate fractal images using digital computers. But you don’t need to. Fractals are actually fascinatingly ubiquitous, and you can produce them in lots of different ways – not just digitally.
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    "In this video, what they've done is set up three screens, in a triangular pattern, and set them to display the input from a camera.. If you watch, they're able to manipulate it to get Julia fractals, Sierpinski triangles, and several other really famous fractals. "
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    Fractals without a Computer
Anna Hentz

100 Famous People Throughout History - Mighty Optical Illusions - 3 views

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    Great way to test cultural literacy
Sarah Horrigan

How People are using Twitter during Conferences - 0 views

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    The popularity of microblogging, with special emphasis on twitter, the most famous application of the kind, is growing rapidly. This kind of tools for micro-exchange of information and communication is changing the daily life of knowledgeable worker as well as Internet savvy people. From this perspective this paper aims to show how Twitter can be used during conferences, and furthermore how different people are using it. With the help of a survey and analysis of the collected data, benefits regarding the use of a microblogging tool such as Twitter can be presented. The publication shows evidence on how Twitter can enhance the knowledge of a given group or community by micro-connecting a diverse online audience. Statistical data was also used to support this research.
Martin Burrett

BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos - 7 views

  • Become a pop icon! Inspired by Warhol's famous paintings of Marilyn Monroe.
  • Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are!
  • Make your own customized movie poster. You choose the photo, titles, and credits. Be a star!
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    • Kalin Wilburn
       
      This site offers a wide variety of tools for school. Some that you may use on your own and others you can have your students using for any project imaginable. Feel free to check out everything they have to offer but I have highlighted some of my favorites.
  • Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other motivational poster for any occasion.
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    Flickr toys!
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    A superb image manipulator site. Make your photos into works of art, jigsaws, photo cubes, calendars and many more. Free sign in required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images
Jay Swan

Pterosaur.net :: Home - 19 views

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    From the site: "This website was conceived at the 2007 Flugsaurier pterosaur research meeting in Munich when we, a collection of pterosaur researchers and artists directly working with us realised that there was no comprehensive, high quality website dedicated to this popular group of prehistoric animals. This acts in stark contrast to a number of excellent dinosaur-based websites and, frankly, we couldn't quite figure out why when pterosaurs are equally famous, popular and, in some respects, better known than their dinosaur cousins. With this in mind, we set out to create a pterosaur based website that: figure * Presents up-to-date information on pterosaurs in an accessible fashion * Sources information from the primary scientific literature * Is written by qualified, experienced pterosaur researchers * Can reflect the active research occuring in pterosaur science * Provides professionally produced pterosaur art and photographs of pterosaur specimens"
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