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=﻿IMPACT Student Learning with these LA TECHNOLOGY adventures!......................................... = =** 1. Using "Wordles" In LA! **= Wordle - is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

For the prereading/summary strategy:
1. Type your own or retrieve a story summary from http://www.bookrags.com/ 2. Go to http://www.wordle.net/ 2. Click "Create" 3. Copy and paste the story summary into the text box. 4. Click "Go" 5. Have students make predictions about the plot of the story. 6. Have them write their own summary on their book!

Example of summary Wordles. Can you guess the book?
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For the Main Idea Strategy Non-Fiction:
1. Students list top ten main ideas from the selection. 2. Teams of three share and discuss their chosen ten. 3. The team jointly comes up with a new and improved top ten list. 4. Type them into Wordle to create a poster! 5. Other teams can guess what their selection was about!

book was about?
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http://www.wordle.net/ *Click on Create to paste or type your information into.
= 2. Using "Claymations" in LA! = Claymations are stop animation videos.

3. Create a claymation!
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Go to this site to learn how and see examples!
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Examples from students:
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= 3. Using Digital Storytelling in LA! =

***Genres *Vocabulary *Any concept could work with this! There are tons of programs out there to do digital storytelling. "My Story Maker" lends itself well to writing fairy tales. I combined writing fairytales along with using challenging vocab words.**

(Please note, the ex.s here are not animated. They will be animated when the student is writing his/her story.)
*How cool! Students can print their own published books!

= 4. Using "Pixtons" in LA! = * **Plot *Storytelling * Gen**﻿**res *Cause and Effect (a story with lots of ex.s *Compare and Contrast (two characters comparing/contrasting a topic)*Explaining a topic: for example, a story told about figurative language! *Any subject topic could be told through this fun comic site!**

**Click here to set up your own account!** **[]**

** Details and more student examples coming soon! **
= 5. Using Flipcameras in LA! =

Student Examples:
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=6. Using PREZI in LA!=

3. Have students create their Prezis! Check out these great examples!
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4. Have them teach a small cluster of younger students! Be sure to "flip" them with the flip cameras!
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*Go to this site to open your own FREE Prezi account, learn how to create them, and see examples!
http://prezi.com/

= 7. Using Powerpoints in LA! =

4. Have them present to the class!
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=8. Email and Microsoft Word for essays, letters, and stories to be edited:= Have students type their assignment and email as an attachment. Using comments and tracking changes in Microsoft Word makes it easy for students to rewrite and correct work to create a great finished product. Two student examples follow: