WORDLE – WHAT’S THAT?

A Wordle from the introduction to my dissertation

HOW DO I MAKE A WORDLE?

• It’s easy! Go to this website: www.wordle.net

• You don’t have to register any details to make a Wordle

• Click on ‘Create’ at the top of the page

• In the textbox that appears, paste in the text you want to

use, or type it in directly

• Words which appear more often, show up larger on the

Wordle

• Press ‘Go’, and your Wordle will be created

• Use the Edit buttons at the top of your Wordle to change

the orientation of your text, and colours

• Once ready, you can print your Wordle. It will export as a

PDF

Created for free

on the Animoto

website

It’s easy – anyone

can do this!

ANIMOTO –

SHORT AND

FUN

HOW TO MAKE AN ANIMOTO

• Click on Create, once on the website, and then choose Short video,

which are the free ones

Use this

button to

import

pictures

from your

computer

Put your

pictures in

these

boxes, in

the order

in which

you want

them. You

can only

have 15

pictures

and text. Use this tab to add music, your own or

Animoto’s preselected range

Use this tab to finalise your

Animoto. Effects are added by

Animoto, and can’t be changed

WHAT’S A GLOG?

http://frankster.glogster.com/glog-487/

• A glog is an interactive poster. You – and pupils- can easily

make a glog which contains text, pictures and videos

• This makes the presentation much more fun to watch for

everybody

• www.edu.glogster.com is a free educational site where you

can register your class and keep their glogs private

• You do this by registering for Glogster for yourself, and then

asking them for an educational account. Use your school email

address, which will indicate to them that you work in an

educational establishment

• And then have fun, trying out and creating your first glog!

WHAT IS ONLINE BOOKMARKING?

• Online bookmarks are a way of sharing your bookmarks with a wider

audience

• Bookmarks are available from whichever computer you are working

on, not only your own computer

• There are two main sites for this, Diigo and Delicious

• You can embed the bookmarks on to websites, and share them with

pupils

• You can choose for bookmarks to be public or private

• You can choose whether others can share your login, or you are the

only owner of the set

• Fantastic resource for departments to have their own set of

bookmarks to share with pupils

ROLLYO – CREATING A WALLED

GARDEN FOR SEARCHING

�Go to www.rollyo.com and sign up for this free

resource

� Create your own Rollyo

� Copy and paste the widget code on to the

page of the VLE where you would like it to work

� In this way, you can teach pupils to search for

their own results, but can control the sites you

want them to search in

KEEP UP TO DATE – FOLLOW THESE

SITES

Top 100 Tools for Learning from Jane Hart: brief explanations and links to best tools to use: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/ Phil Bradley: A must for everyone to follow: http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/ Discovery education site – brief video introductions to the most popular Web 2 tools: http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0/video.cfm