Top 10 Reasons to Use Wordle/Tagxedo

It's 4:30am and I'm struggling to sleep. I thought hmmm, why not get this out there and discuss why I think you should use Wordle/Tagxedo in the classroom!

1. Word Wall; start and continue to add words to it throughout the year. Even though you are not able to save and add on it is good to dedicate it to students to recreate and print a new one every week!
2. Book Report; quick easy and you can eliminate words that are over used ie; the!
3. Mother's Day present!
4. Father's Day present!
5. Famous person report...more with tagxedo. Research a famous person and create a word cloud using that persons image/picture.
6. Math words/vocabulary.
7. Lifeskills poster; assign a lifeskill to each student and have them come up with ways to use that lifeskill.
8. Advertising; have students create a product they would like to sell and in 50 words or less sale that item.
9. Wedding present; (more for adults) Using the wedding couples last name, incorporate family words (love, family, life, etc) then send to Kinko's to get printed to card stock of choice and frame!
10. Working with words....create word families!!

I am sure there are many more but these are some of the few that I like to use!!!

Classroom doohickies....

So today we went to the Sunflower Store in Topeka, KS. If you don't know what that is it is teacher heaven....all day I could spend in there looking through so much material. Got some great ideas for the classroom this year. I was going to buy this poster board thing for Anchor Activities....but after much debate I have decided to make a bulletin board.

* What do I do? I'm all through!~~~Title
then some fun little things under it so that my early finishers can select from a multitude of different learning activities.
**They can Create, Finish, Read, Write, and Explore!!!
I think this can be an interesting bulletin board....now to just make sure I keep it updated. :)

~~Starting this up~~

So I decided that I am going to start blogging whatever my random thoughts are!
Yes I have plenty of them! :) Somethings you might see in the near future:
* Training for a half-marathon
* School year and learning with technology
* My Family
and whole bunch of random ramblings...