One of the Add-ons I feel will be useful for students is the Thesaurus. Teaching writing at the lower elementary level presents challenges as you teach word choice. Teachers try to steer students away from words like cool and great, but it has proven difficult to either use a book thesaurus or an online thesaurus. The new "Thesaurus Add-on" makes finding alternative words a breeze. Please see the screenshot below to see how it works.
This week Google created add-ons for Docs and Spreadsheets. I have embedded a Google Video below that explains some of these add-ons. One of the Add-ons I feel will be useful for students is the Thesaurus. Teaching writing at the lower elementary level presents challenges as you teach word choice. Teachers try to steer students away from words like cool and great, but it has proven difficult to either use a book thesaurus or an online thesaurus. The new "Thesaurus Add-on" makes finding alternative words a breeze. Please see the screenshot below to see how it works.
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I was honored to present at the 2013 Wisconsin Lutheran State Teacher's Conference on Oct. 25. I presented the topic "Web Applications You Can Use Right Now!" I presented on using Text2Mindmap, Symbaloo, and Padlet.. @symbaloo @padlet Please take a look at the presentations below. Early this year I came across Symbaloo via Susan Oxnevad's Blog. I started creating and using this for students in my class. Instead of creating invidual links on a webpage I can create a whole page with visual links. The first Symbaloo is one I use for my students and the second is websites I intergrate in our studies. You will have to scroll right and left to see the whole Symbaloo I came across this slideshare and thought I would share it. How many of these WEB 2.0 programs are you using?
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