We love Wordles

Today I had a Grade 7 class and to start off the lesson I decided that they should summarise their summer holidays in the form of ‘Wordles’. Wordle.com offers this amazing programme free, and I have learned more about it from other Edubloggers such as Kevin Cummins. who wrote extensively about the programme on his amazing blog. The Grade 7s loved the experience. The only sad thing is that there is no way to save these lovely wordles, but not to worry – we used another free screen capture programme (Zapgrab) to copy the wordles, and we saved them as jpegs. There is so much more to learn about this programme – it can be used in countless ways.

Here's to Edublogs!

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Well, last year I used this blog ‘Bonding through blogging’ with a combined Grade 4&5 class as we learned about the wonderful blogosphere together. What an exciting, memorable and mindstretching year it was! We made so many new friends around the world, and we loved collaborating on projects. Whew! This year all the classes have changed, and since we have decided to introduce classroom blogs for all the Grades, I am going to use this particular blog in a new way - writing about all the exciting things that I am learning about Web2 every day. I am the computer teacher at my primary school. I teach Grade 1 – Grade 7 and I have 24 classes every week, plus two afternoon computer clubs after school. The classes are big – around 35 or more and I have no helper! But that doesn’t damper my enthusiasm for creating an exciting curriculum for my students. In this new beginnings post I want to say a big THANK YOU to Edublogs. I have learned so much from the Edublog’s team, and all the amazing Edublogs’ teachers spread across the globe who are so willing to share their knowledge. Here’s to Edublogs!