Websites

Piclits, Scratch, and Voki were websites we looked at today.  I found Scratch to not be as user friendly to navigate around the website, it didn’t directly tell me what to do or how to do it.  However, Voki was very interesting.  This would be a very useful tool for the classroom, you could create an avatar and have it be another way of communicating information to students, or have students create their own avatars based on characters from stories, or as themselves and have them write about why they picture a certain character or themselves in the way the potrayed them through avatars.  Piclits is something I would defintely use in the classroom.  I like how you can put pictures up on a screen and drag words or create words to put on the picture.  That is a great way for students to learn how to use analytical skills by analyzing  a picture and putting key words on the page.  These websites are something you could use to keep the students attention, as well as provide them with more applicable scenarios and texts besides books, so they can use these skills in the real world.

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