Well, it was a BUSY week so I am going to make this brief. Sorry. I worked with Tagxedo this week. I just picked this one for no particular reason as I have not had any experience in Tagxedo or Wordle. I took an adapted newspaper I use in school and added the text. For my students, this year, this seems like too much going on. They would miss the point of what they were looking at and become overstimulated. I did look online and found a suggestion to make one that has just the students name. This might be useful for some of the students at my school, if not my classroom who have a difficult time with word recognition. I would love to see if I could use they symbols we use for common items and use that as the shape for a Tagxedo. That would give the word and shape more power and might work for some students where traditional methods have failed. Overall, I enjoyed my experience in trying out Tagxedo, I look forward to using it more and learning more about different Web 2.0 tools.
Until Next Week!
I understand how you feel with a busy week. That has been my life for a while now. If you get a chance look at Wordle as well. I think that both programs are very useful die to giving a different perspective to the same idea. I hope they work for what you have planed.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck!