I was delighted to run across the post card Web.20 website since we use to send positive reinforcement postcards to our most improved students, student of the months, or for special occasion. Due to budget constraints those times are long gone with this technology I can now design, create, format and send postcards as necessary. I can even send personal post cards for holidays. There are levels ranging from free to costlier categories. Apparently I just need a receiver’s e-mail address and I am good to go!
Hold on…I just tried to download a postcard for y’all and it turned out that it was an application to download. My excitement has turned to frustration they shouldn’t be advertising this as Web 2.0 since you can’t share this; perhaps I am doing it wrong. I am moving on to Wordle.
I stumbled on to Wordle tonight, knowing we were going to be working on it later on in the month. Apparently FSO has been using this with some of their graphical elements in many media assets throughout the last few months. I always wondered how they did it! This is probably the friendliest tool that I have examined so far, aside from Keynote. I am very excited about it. I value this interface as it allows me to explore different languages, fonts, colors, backgrounds, layouts, and settings until I am satisfied. I appreciate the ability to alphabetize and change my word count. Also, there is the opportunity to look at other creations via the gallery and contact the innovator of Wordle. I am not a graphic artist but adore adding visual elements to linguistic learning; this simple user interface will help my students and me accomplish this.
http://www.wordle.net/
1 comments:
Lorri,
Wordle is one of my favorite Web 2.0 tools so far. It is such a great way to make words come alive. I agree that the visual that this tool produces and the user-friendly way in which the application is set up makes it a winner...simple yet powerful.