Mallory Burton's List: Kurzweil resources

This section of flickr teaches social studies by inviting viewers to comment or tag the Library of Congress historic photo collection. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. Some of the comments had been made by very knowledgable history buffs and others were personal responses to the photos. This could be a very powerful learning tool. The photos are all creative commons, so you can use them in projects without violating copyright.

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photos socialstudies CC history on 2009-03-08 and saved by 94 people

October 2, 2008 post. Detailed description (and video) of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds. The blogger had created a wordle with vocab from the novel Holes and covered up the words with with rectangles. Students came to the SMARTBoard one at a time to touch the rectangle and reveal a word. Then they used a spinner to tell them what to do with the word: to use the word in a sentence, tell how many syllables, or give a synonym or antonym. The rectangles were colour coded by degree of difficulty so the teacher could differentiate instruction. You can download the Notebook file, and the blogger promises a tutorial for this idea.

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smartboard wordle Holes on 2009-02-03 and saved by 8 people