Day+2

**Day 2 was exciting we got to play with Wordle and Tagxedo** **Wordle** is a fun way to display vocabulary words. A tutorial can can found at : []

Wordle can be found at: [|http://wordle.net] Here is a wordle I created from Math Course 2 Chapter 2 vocabulary words. I used Paint to save it as a JPEG and then Microsoft Picture Editor to crop it.

**Taxedo** is similar to Wordle. Tagxedo is found here: []

Here is a tutorial []

Another great resource for Tagxedo is this FAQ [] I created an example of a tagxedo for my 3rd grade reading class for when we study penguins.

Here is my avatar media type="custom" key="9844621"I really had fun making it and I will use it the first day of school with my students. I may even try to make one for back to school night. Here is the website I used to create this avatar. I liked this website because you could type what you wanted the avatar to say and you did not need a microphone. []

﻿I explored other Web2.0 sites and here is a list of the ones I have found so far. I will continue to add sites during the year. There were so many Web2.0 tools that can help me make my classes more interesting that I am just blown away.