Blog#13_2010BP_reflectivemediaasset_week3

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Blog#5c_2010_web2.0tools

I have another great website. It can be found at http://sketchup.google.com. This is a marvelous tool to teach students how to draw from 2D to 3D. The free version is more than enough to get started. It has tutorials, which show how to use the tools and does examples of drawings. I plan to use this with my 8^th graders when they do their clay unit on buildings. They have to design a building on paper, construct it out of tag board and then build it out of clay. This will be another step before building it out of tag board.

This site would also be great for helping students to understand one point perspective. The application uses different planes for drawing. The application will not draw unless what the student is drawing it on the same plane. However, my students will probably understand it better than I think they will.

Blog#5b_2010_BP_web2.0Tools

The next tool I have chosen is found at http://visualthesaurus.com. This site offers a word of the day. I know that will not thrill my students, however there is another feature they will enjoy. If you type in a word, this site will do a word map that shows other words and their relationship with the word you typed. I plan to have my students use this when they ask what a word means.

This site would be great for my ELL students. Oftentimes it is hard for them to understand words when you try to relate it to another word. This thesaurus would show them the relationship from a word they know to other words. It would also show them what a word means that they didn't know and the relationship to a word they did know.