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a bit of history about cloud computing & a bit about where it is heading

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

I chose this page because it shows how various schools have used Schoology's Learning Management System for organizing their classroom needs including discussions and cloud-based collaborations.

I love Wordle so I thought I'd try this. It's great! It takes Wordle to a whole new level

Tagxedo is different than other word cloud creators in that you can customize the shape of your cloud.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Site to make word "art". I have used this in the revision process for writers who are redundant in their word choice; the more frequently a word is entered, the larger it appears on the finished project. Students can copy and paste their document into the website for this effect.

Cloud-based file creation, sharing and storage.

A cloud-based music notation program with several forums for collaboration.

MoodleCloud is a hosting platform, designed and run by Moodle.

This is a Voicthread slide show  that incorporated groups solving math problems.  This is a great idea.

This is an article about using Worlde as a tool in class. It isn't really used in social networking, but I think it could easily be tweeted or posted as an update on Facebook. The power is in the words and analysis of the rhetorical features in the words.

Personal and professional development resources that integrates with Facebook. Full suite of application training allowing people to teach & learn with friends and colleagues. 

This article is helping me see how if I were to create a Venn diagram of these two concepts, there would be some overlap. Keep in mind, the article was crafted in 1996, which I think adds strength to it because it is not clouded with current conventional ways of communication. I can see the points Panitz brings out where cooperative learning is much like how I was taught to teach science. We have groups, most likely created by me, and each member of the group plays a role. In more recent years (like the last 15 or so), there has been more of a push for inquiry which emphasizes putting control in the students' hands. Let the students decide the outcome (collaborative) as opposed to the teacher knowing what the outcome will be (cooperative). In my later years of teaching I was striving toward bringing in as much inquiry as possible, but even in 2010 I found students still molded into vessels who thought the job of the teacher was to fill them.

The link to my Positive Digital Footprint Plan. References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10HnuvY_Ib97d5MYfKVH0mW7j7am2e3BhliBuvEYSZdA/edit?usp=sharing

LearnZillion is the world's first open, cloud-based curriculum. We help teachers, schools, and districts improve instruction and respond to the specific needs of their students.

This has been a life saver in my computer lab.  I have created Symbaloos of websites I use regularly in my lab for each of my classes.  It has been especially helpful with my younger students who have trouble typing in web addresses.  

This is a list of websites and project ideas that focus on connecting students from different classrooms and getting them to use social media. I have a feeling I will be using this site to find the rest of my sites for the Module 6 project.

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