Tagxedo!

As the end of the 1st semester is quickly approaching, students are preparing for their final presentation. We used www.tagxedo.com. It's a website that creates word clouds in different shapes. The students blogged about every major religion after the lesson or guest speaker and put the text from their blogs into the word cloud. Here is an example: http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/b27b5ce2a59f4db5. Today, they prepared for their presentations by using a rubric and a short list of requirements. Their goal is to explain the shape they chose as a symbol for religious tolerance and use their content knowledge to promote respect for others with different faiths. We ran onto some technology problems today with keyboard shortcuts and emailing the URL to themselves, but we were able to work around those unexpected hiccups. We'll see how it goes tomorrow!