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Entries Tagged as 'Shakespeare'

Concept Maps, Brainstorming, and Visual Tools

February 18, 2009 · 3 Comments · Cool tools, Productivity

And then the magic happens by Mark McLaughlin Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License I’ve always been an experimenter in the classroom. And luckily, I’ve always had pretty easy-going and willing-to-be-experimented-on students. So when I recently asked my Grade 8 students to try out different ways of creating a sociogram, they said, “Sure!”* Here was the task: a sociogram [...]

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TagCrowd – A Meme and an Idea

April 30, 2008 · 2 Comments · Cool tools

Thanks again to Clay for this cool tool. Here is what Act 2 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth looks like, using TagCrowd: Thoughts and questions: Perhaps a tool like this could be used to help students organize ideas, by finding out what is most or least important? Can a text-based cloud like this have any use in [...]

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