Activity 6: Study Tools

Last year I created a Tagxedo and flashcards for this activity, so this summer I decided to try Spicynodes and Timetoast.

Here is my Spicynode showing all the cool options for your Summer Camp 2.0 projects!  Laying it out this way surprised me...I didn't realize just how many tools we've included!

For my TimeToast, I decided to create a sample timeline for a biography project.  Fifth grade does a wax museum project each year and creates a newspaper with a timeline.  I don't know that this would be used for that project, but it's another way to represent that timeline, or a fun way to integrate technology into the lesson.  I used Melvil Dewey for mine, since I'm a library nerd.  :)  My information came from the OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/biography.en.html) and American National Biography Online (http://www.anb.org/articles/09/09-00229.html).

I think there must be a better timeline option out there; I 've used ReadWriteThink's student tool before and found that a lot easier to navigate.  One thing I didn't like about TimeToast is that I had to put specific dates, and I couldn't always find the dates in my research.  I chose January or July 1st if I didn't have a real date, so not all of these things happened on New Years!