TCEA2009 – Learning with Tammy Worcester

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Tammy at TCEA 2009

Playing around in Tammy Worcester’s class, Revving Up Reading and Writing with Technology, working my way through the following tools, I thought I’d take two of the tools Tammy shared and play with them a bit. While I felt this class was introductory for me, I am appreciating the conversations that Tammy is encouraging among educators to explore the tools.

I’ve bolded the tools that I like below.

1. Newspaper Clipping Generator

2. Read Write Think

3. Spelling City

4. VozMe

5. Wordle

…and here are some of the products

Wordle.net – I recently submitted my article entitled “5 Lesson for Mobile Device Implementation”–which will appear later this month–to Education World (check the link to EW to find it).

Here’s a Wordle of that article:


Education Uses:

  • Building word banks or word clouds
  • Great way for kids to pick out a main idea out of a paragraph of text since the main idea words are prevalent.
  • Have kids go to the CREATE button and type in their name and copy -n- paste it about ten time, put in characteristics, personality traits, then generate a wordle.
  • Obama’s inauguration speech as well as previous presidential inauguration and then compare those. Over at Wikinomics, someone has done something similar.

The second tool that was fun to play with was the Newspaper Clipping Generator, which I’ve played with in the past to great success (or not, depending on your perspective):

Education Uses Shared in Tammy Session:

  • This could be used to do a short interview
  • Write up articles and share them
  • Tips for Healthy Living
  • Information literacy
  • Persuasive writing
  • Write articles from a historical perspective
  • Reporter at Hogwarts writing about Harry Potter books

After discussing these tools, Tammy had us fill out a survey…you can see the survey and results at the links below:

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