CCB's+PYP+Exhibition+Toolbox

This is just for reminding you that at the webpage of the school Mr.Wallis left a very interesting list of tools that can help us to make our exhibition more creative and that also can hel us solve any problem we have.

[|Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds]


Paste words into Wordle click on the magic button and create your own word clouds. Could be an interesting way to make some eye catching labels for your exhibition.It´s also a fascinating way to analyze texts. The more a word is repeated the bigger it gets in the word cloud. Want to know the key words in Uribe´s latest speech? paste it into Wordle and all will be revealed.

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[|Google Docs on YouTube]
For those of you who want to find out more about Google Docs there is a community on YouTube where you can find a wide variety of ´How To ´ videos:

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[|Twitter]
Twitter in it´s own words is

a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: **What are you doing?** Sounds useful although not terribly exciting but Twitter just happens to be one of the biggest things on the internet at the moment.Apparently over the last year traffic to the site has increased eightfold, and more than 60% over the last month. And it´s all over the news.

Twitter offers a free real time micro blogging network. You get 140 characters to communicate with and your messages are known as "tweets". In a way it´s like texting but rather than text one person you´re texting the internet. Your tweets go to the main site where anyone can read them but you can choose to ´follow´ people and people can ´follow ´ you. In that case your messages go straight to your followers.

What´s it for? Well, that´s the interesting thing. Judging by how it´s being used it´s for whatever you make of it.

The ´twitterverse ´ can be searched and analyzed using a variety of free online applications.Experimenting with these options provides all sorts of interesting insights into the strange and wonderful world we live in. There are sites that act as Twitter search engines and there´s even one which shows tweets as they occur, flagged up on a world map so you can see their origin.

In general, Twitter has gone mainstream but it´s still fairly cutting edge in education. As part of the exhibition process it might be an interesting way for group members and their mentor to keep in touch between meetings. You can use Twitter via some cell phones.

It could also be used to investigate the themes that come up within a project.By using Twitter we could learn using up to the minute information .For example, the word ´ unemployment ´ could be searched using [|Twitterfall] and then [|Twittermap] could be used to geo tag the word and see where it is being talked about the most. Another interesting idea would be to use a [|Twitter poll] to collect and graph people´s reactions to a concept or statement.

To create your own account go to:

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Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches:

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To create a poll using Twitter:

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 * MadTwitter** is a Windows application that lets you read “twits” written by your friends and publish your own. Once confgured it will stay open at the bottom of your desktop showing itself when you recieve new Tweets :

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For Macs download Twitterific from the Icon Factory:

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Twittervision shows you where the latest Tweets are being posted on a world map:

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Tweetscan allows you to search by user and time:

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...and more at [] (Remember to go to the school webpage!)

Tatiana