We are sharing poetry in our library for National Poetry Month. Undoubtedly, one of the favorite poets among students is Shel Silverstein. Here is great site that has Shel Silverstein poems and activities on it...Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Wordle!
A cool website for those who like to play with their words is http://www.wordle.net/ It allows you to enter text and make your own word collages--you choose the font, the colors, and the style and it automatically arranges it for you! Here's one I did from the first chapter of one of my favorite books--can you guess which one it is?
They do have a saved gallery of other people's Wordles, which can sometimes get a little dangerous, so be cautious if using this with a class. But it's a great tool for teachers and librarians who want to jazz up the way they introduce a book or topic.
I used the screen capture function to save the graphic--on my Mac, it's Command-Shift-4 (pressed all together), and then you can click and drag a window around what you'd like to copy and it will save it to your desktop.
They do have a saved gallery of other people's Wordles, which can sometimes get a little dangerous, so be cautious if using this with a class. But it's a great tool for teachers and librarians who want to jazz up the way they introduce a book or topic.
I used the screen capture function to save the graphic--on my Mac, it's Command-Shift-4 (pressed all together), and then you can click and drag a window around what you'd like to copy and it will save it to your desktop.
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