I actually had a lot of trouble with the Web 2.0 literacy tools links working. A lot went to things that were no longer available.. but this is what I looked at. Letterpop is a newsletter maker that makes it easy to share said newsletters, only problem is you have to get a subscription. Mebeam is a way to video conference for free over the internet, but we've already learned about using skype for that. Aviary is a photo editor available as an app or a widget. I am choosing to go in depth with wordle.
Well, my plan would be to use Wordle to create a graphic that displays current vocab in my classroom, the samples I saw on the website were really cool, but after I typed in all the vocab (you can even keep phrases together by using "~" instead of a space between words), it wouldn't load. I believe my java is up-to-date, but I guess I'm going to have to try it at school. I would like to make one and post it on here.
Ideally this tool would serve as a graphic to maybe preview the vocab for a new chapter or to have as a bit of a cool-looking reminder (up until quiz day that is). It's just nice to have material presented in a more visually pleasing way :).
UPDATE: I got it to work at school, so here is a wordle of my Spanish 2's current vocab. I think it would be nice to have somewhere in the room (up until a test at least) as a nice visual.
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