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This is Mary Kurtak, Kindergarten Teacher for the School District of Philadelphia and Wilkes University EDIM 510 student. This is my podcast on using word clouds in the kindergarten classroom. Sight words...I hear no laughter, no excitement, no one is begging me to review our sight words. Now what if I say let's make our sight words into a word cloud? Cheers from all corners of the classroom! Kids are begging to make the next word cloud. Word clouds on wordle is my latest attempt of using a web 2.0 tool with my kindergarteners with the hope of keeping literacy skills fresh, interactive, and fun. As with any new tool in kindergarten we start small... small like me helping one student explore wordle. From there, I choose a pair of students to work together at our one computer with printer access. My student helper and I get the pair started then I leave them to find words together and type. My student helper stays with

Hey world. Ron Mader here with the Parks Web 2.0 webinar. Today is September 20th. 2011. Our favorite buzz words for the day are Flicker posts, live streaming and wikificatio. Look at the links to find out what they mean on http://planeta.wikispaces.com/parksweb2 Throughout this week we're looking at about 20 different web 2.0 channels. Today we're focusing on Slide share Wiki Wordle and Youtube. Now let me go through them one by one.

Hi Village A Students. To create a grammar wordle you're gonna go to Wordle.net. That's W O R D L E and then you're going to go to create your own which is about 1/3 the way down the page and after you clicked on that you are going to enter a bunch of words that you think relate to grammar. If you want a word to show up larger than the other words then you want to type that word in more times and after you are satisfied with everything you've typed in that relates to grammar you'll gonna click go and once you've clicked go you have a bunch of options of how you want your Wordle to look. You can change the font, the size, the color and you can play around with that makes you look however you'd like and then once you satisfied with that you like how it looks you'll gonna go ahead and print your Wordle which you can go to file at the top and then print and make sure you bring that into class on Wednesday, August 25th. I will see you all then. Bye.

Today's word is wordle. Feeling hot hot hot!