Homework 4 Vday
Question:
What new resources and tools have you acquired in the past weeks that you’d like share with other DFM participants?
Answer:
my DFM Ed Track teacher makes the best prezis and i think it's because they are very simple. She only makes her words going either horizontally or vertically. She puts her main points horizontal in bigger letters and when she hits the arrow to go to the next thing, the screen goes to vertical words that are written smaller..hard to explian.Anyway, in class my small group was assigned to create a prezi about Bad Graphic Design. Afterward I played around with making one about the parts of the violin that I could maybe use with my new students.
wordle
Wordle can be used as a Collaborative Design tool. My Ed Track teacher, who I clearly look up to a lot, uses it during her students debates so they can see what points they may agree on--she inputs the transcript of the debates into Wordle and it creates a visual made up of words. The words that were used the most are the biggest. The frequency the words were used in the block of text you input will coincide with the size the words come out. You can change the colors and font too.
The week I learned about Wordle (and there as one in the Gallery with all the characters in Hunger Games!), I tried to get my partner into it. He wasn't very interested until I took all of text from his Kresge application Narrative Artist Statement and made a Wordle with it. That got his attention! Then I even made a Wordle of his unpublished manuscript of poems called "Detroit Colors"--he loved that and wanted to look at for a long time. I got to show him the component to the site where you can check how many times each word was used...now he wants to use a Wordle in his book and it's Open Source so he can actually do that! I ended up getting sucked into reading the Wordle creators blog. He seems really cool and smart--very into Open Source principles. He's a dad too!
