Podcast Reflection #3: Tech Chick Tips

The podcast that I listened to gave a lot of great website tips that could be incorporated into the classroom. The first website that the "tech chicks" talked about was called make use of. On this site you can make and print your own calendars. There are tons of templates and colors and designs that you can use to make these calendars. You can make the traditional sized calendar, or even bookmark calendars. The great idea they had for using this site was to make a classroom calendar with different pictures of the classroom and of the students. Another site that the tech chicks talked about that would be used in the classroom was vimeo. This website provides you with free lesson on shooting and editing video. It is also similar to youtube in the fact that you can share and watch videos on the site. The tech chicks mentioned that this could be a good tool for students to use to learn more about videography. The next site that they mentioned tied back to our class, they talked about tagxedo. Tagxedo is like wordle but on steroids. Besides the large variety of fonts and colors that you can customize, tagxedo also allows you to give your word clouds shapes. You can also make a wordle fit into the actual spelling of a word. The other site they discussed that I thought would be really good to use in your  classroom was know word. On this site you are given the definition of a word and the first letter in that word, you type in the word you think it is and have one minute to get as many words right as you can. This site would be a great way to help students with vocabulary.