Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Poll Everywhere and Wordle and NETS-T

I made my Poll on polleverywhere ask the audience what subject they wanted to teach and what grade levels. I then took the responses I recieved and made them into a wordle, which takes the key words and arranges them in a fun and creative way. This applies to the first bullet of Standard 1 of the NETS-T by being creating a creative environment for the students to learn.

I read the wordle lesson plan. This teacher teaches English at the elementry level. She switched the assignment around numerous times until the kids were more comftorable with it and she was getting better results. The blog doesn't say what she was using the wordle for, but she tells that the kids made their own wordles from, what I assume, was vocabulary words or spelling words. 
This applies to the third bullet of Standard 1 of the NETS-T by using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

I could use these both in my classroom. For wordle I could create one of the presidents, or states, or something like that. A poll could be created by asking students short answer questions. I don't think Poll Everywhere and Wordle have to be used together.

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