Wordle Fun

One of the challenges for me this year is to come up with lots of NEW things... Since I am looping with my class, they've seen all my old tricks! This means new icebreakers at the beginning of the year, etc. While on Twitter, I caught a chat about ideas for the beginning of the school year (have I mentioned how much I LOVE Twitter?!). I just wrote a blog post about the power of the Twitter hashtag... :)

With my new netbooks in the room, I have so many options! One of the teachers I follow posted a link to an activity she does with Wordle. This is a great "About Me" activity that combines Wordle with a blog post. I started learning about kidblog.org last year, and am setting up blogs for my students. This will be a great way to break out our netbooks the first week and have some fun with the kids. I love that teachers are so much more transparent these days, and are taking the time to post these activities to Google Docs for the rest of us. It wasn't that long ago that teachers kept their great ideas to themselves! I have to remember to return the favor, and work more transparently myself this year...