Activity 6

The assignment for this week was hard for me. Study tools are not something we use a lot in Kindergarten. I decided to play around with most of the tools to see how I liked them. I started with Studyblue thinking that I could use it for sight words- using audio or for position words with a picture; however, when I went to do this it required a finical upgrade to be able to use more then just text in your flash cards.

Since I wasn't sure how I would use these tools in Kindergarten I decided to try a couple of the others and just make them more personal, not school related.

Here is a timeline from when my husband and I met to when we got married. I really liked Timetoast's layout abilities. I like that you can view it easily as a timeline or as events in text, without being overwhelmed by either layout. I still haven't thought about how I would really use it with Kindergarten, but feel that it could be a very powerful teaching tool! The only way I could see using it, is as a way to document our class activities. It would be fun way to share with students and parents the main events of the year! One thing I didn't like about it was that you had to put an exact date into it. If you could be more vague about the date it would allow me to use it in more ways, like as a sequencing tool.



I also did a Tagxedo because it reminded me of Wordle and I thought that would be fun to do. I used the lyrics of my wedding song. I can see using this in school for a number of activities! One thing I did with Wordle was to do an adjective lesson where students wrote down adjectives describing each student in the class and then students typed their list into Wordle to see the words that describe them. I think activities like this wold be great to do as a whole class with Tagxedo and then be able to choose your layout!!! It would be a fun way to show what your class had learned about a unit, or you could do a small group author study or character analysis!!