Flickr is Fabulous

I played a little too long on Flickr this week! I'd been on Flickr before, but never had the time to sit, explore and enjoy all that it offers. I enjoyed all of the tutorials and links associated with this task because I made many classroom/curriculum connections. From reading Kelly's Blog, I can see how creating a private account for my class will be most beneficial. There are many tie -ins for Wordly Wise and I know Kelly has used images to teach the vocabulary words. In fourth grade, Worldy Wise is more of an independent study, so the kids could upload images on our class account to represent a WW word. I don't think it would be too time consuming for the kids and is a higher order skill. They could use the Spell with Flickr tool to write the word to match the image.



As I searched the history link, I had trouble finding artifacts that matched the 4th grade curriculum. I will keep searching becasue there are so many other great artifact images! Thank you Sandy for putting together this great task!

Wordle and Jing

I enjoyed exploring all of the Graphic Organizers. Wow, there are a ton of options! Wordle is an oldie, but a goodie. Last year, the students created Wordles for Science and Social Studies vocabulary that was challenging. I’d allow Two Minute Reviews and they’d share their words with each other and ask questions. I’ve also used them to identify weak verbs in writing samples. Students copy their text into Wordle and then look for weak or over used verbs. Since I’ll be teaching Colonial America this coming year, I created a Wordle to introduce the Middle Colonies.



Creating the Wordle was the easy part. It took some time for me to install and play with Jing, (I've been used to just using the Snipping Tool) but Jing allows you to do so much more.


I enjoyed the links for other uses of Wordle and plan to place text from novels we study into Wordle. I envision using the Wordles as a springboard for review and retelling a particular section of a book.