What tools did I try?
I explored photoshop, google sketchup and wordle.
Photoshop was interesting to explore. A teacher teaches this in my class once per day. I was always interested in learning some techniques but never made the time.
Google sketchup is used to make 3D sketches. It seems easy to use and it is used in many different industries (architecture, construction, design, engineering, etc.)
Wordle creates word clouds. It allows you to type/paste text, add your URL from your blog, webpage or RSS feed. I typed in my URL to my blog, you can change the language, I tried to change my words to Japanese (my husband has been working there for the past year) it was not available. You could also do a word count, to see how many times the word was used in your text.
What are you representing in the visualization you created?
I decided to try glogster and made a glog about myself. Not very many tools are related to my classes but glogster had triangles, compasses, protractors and scales (rulers) to decorate my poster. As I was designing my poster I was thinking about how I can incorporate this into my class and I came up with a few ideas. This year I had my student’s do a traditional poster, each student was to research a different type of engineering position and now I am going to have them do it in glogster. I am going to have my students design a poster about them at the beginning of the year and hang them around the room. I will have them include things like family, sports they play, interests and what colleges they plan to attend.
Click link to view my glog kronecks
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