I really enjoyed last lesson. We began to explore some web 2.0 tools. I learnt about two of them: WORDLE and VOKI.
WORDLE is a tool for generating "word clouds" from texts that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Source: http://www.wordle.net/
VOKI is a tool for creating speaking avatars.
During the lesson, we were asked to use WORDLE to create a word cloud with the definition of one of the Web 2.0 tools. I created this "Word Cloud":
The word clouds were used as riddles for the rest of the class.
We created a VOKI to provide the answer to the riddles. This is my VOKI:
Both tools can be used as effective learning tools because:
- They motivate students to participate.
- They introduce technology in a fun way.
- They are easy to use.
