Tool 5: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Produce

Go Animate:

http://goanimate.com/movie/0of_rPkAWv9A?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0Nzgy9RJWcVs

This web tool is a great way to get students to show you what they know or what they have learned.  It's a video creator that allows students to create conversations between characters.  It's a really fun, engaging way to get students to review skills.  It could also be a way for them to present new information to their classmates.  The only thing I don't like about Go Animate is that it does not allow you to save your videos to anything outside of the website.  You must purchase Go Bucks (currency on web tool) to be able to download your video; however, you can save it to your online account. 

I also think Tagxedo is an excellent Word Cloud generator.

Unlike Wordle, this generator allows the creator to take a web page, a document, a blog, or a short slogan and generate a word cloud.  It also allows you to create an image out of the word cloud.  The images range from simple shapes, like hearts and stars, to the face of President Lincoln.  AMAZING!!!  Students could revise and edit a paper using this tool because it takes the words most repeated and increases their size.  Students could see what words or phrases are used most often and edit variation using this simple tool.  The possibilities are endless!! Ciao!