This is the Original.
This is the "pop art" version
This last one is the "old timey one" I did a couple of things to the original to make this photo look like it was taken a long time ago!Now, that was all fun, and I think we can use befunky.com when our students are learning about long ago and today. They can even create their own picture, and make it look like photos would after 50 years! The callenge with this site is making sure the students are following directions. There are so many cool things to do to photos, that it would be easy for students to get off task. A solution to this challenge would be to have this assignment done in small group, so that the teacher has more control of what they are doing.
I had so much fun with Wordle that I had to share! This gives itself more to classroom use than befunky.com because it essentially is a word wall online! I thought that this would be a lot of fun for my first graders. We could create two word walls. One at the beginning of the unit. So the students would list words and things that they know about a specific topic. Then we'd create a second wordle to show what we know after the unit. It is a great visual for the students to see how much they have learned about something. Here is an example of a wordle I made about George Washington Carver:
I had so much fun with Wordle that I had to share! This gives itself more to classroom use than befunky.com because it essentially is a word wall online! I thought that this would be a lot of fun for my first graders. We could create two word walls. One at the beginning of the unit. So the students would list words and things that they know about a specific topic. Then we'd create a second wordle to show what we know after the unit. It is a great visual for the students to see how much they have learned about something. Here is an example of a wordle I made about George Washington Carver:
I think your ideas for wordle are fantastic! I hadn't thought of using it to compare the vocab base pre- and post-unit. What a great suggestion! In my classroom I use it help practice new vocab. Typically I will make a wordle with 5-8 vocab words, and then make the EXACT same wordle minus one word. The kids have to figure out what is missing. A twist on the same concept is instead of removing a word, misspelling it and asking the students to ID what word is incorrect. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas with the Wordle. I am going to try them out. I have used Wordle for grouping words into catergories. I also use it as a writing prompt. I put keywords that I want them to include into their essay. Going to try the befunky site next. Looks like a lot of fun. Wondering if the students need to have an account in order to access the ablility of picture editing.
ReplyDeleteBefunky.com seems like a great site students to be able to manipulate their pictures. I like your idea of using wordle.com as a KWL chart. That is a great idea to demonstrate what your students have learned. What a cool idea. That is something that I think I will take into consideration for my students.
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