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Nowadays for education 2.0 are many websites where you can make beautiful tag clouds with style . My favorite is tagxedo.Dear friends and etwinners who joined awesome 3C LE organized by
Adil Tuğyan please write your favorite tag cloud and other tag clouds who you used in education 2.0 in comments .
1. Tagxedo -turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text .You can download from here Microsoft Silverlight to see the clouds .


2. Wordle  a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.


3. Kumo - Java Word Cloud An open source word cloud generator aimed at replicating Wordle, Tagxedo, and Word Crams features via an easier to use api.
The goal of Kumo is to create a powerful and user friendly Word Cloud library in Java. Kumo can directly generate an image file, or return a BufferedImage. I plan on hosting it on Maven Central soon.
Current Features
1.Draw Rectangle, Circle or Image Overlay word clouds. Image Overlay will draw words over all non-transparent pixels.
2.Linear, Square-Root Font Scalars. Fully extendible.
3.Variable Font Sizes.
4.Word Rotation. Just provide a Start Angle, End Angle, and number of slices.
5.Custom BackGround Color. Fully customizable BackGrounds coming soon.
Word Padding.
6.Load Custom Color Pallettes.
7.Two Modes that of Colision and Padding: PIXEL_PERFECT and RECTANGLE.
8.Polar Word Clouds. Draw two opposing word clouds in one image to easily compare/contrast date sets.
10.Layered Word Clouds. Overlay multiple word clouds.
11. WhiteSpace and Chinese Word Tokenizer. Fully extendible.
Frequency Analyzer to tokenize, filter and compute word counts.


4.WordItOut
WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!
Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator
Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents or tables.
Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.
Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!
Keep control of your word clouds
Share your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)
Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
Download your own copy as an image file

5.WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials.  WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. WordSift have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. Make Word Mosaic Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols. Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.

6.Tagul - Tagul clouds are not toys and designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds. It is created by Alex, 27 years old entrepreneur and tech geek from Moscow, Russia. Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. Also Tagul utilizes widely used flash platform (instead of less common java platform in Wordle) that is light weight (~50kb per cloud vs ~150kb) and stores the clouds on aCDN  to deliver clouds to wide audience instanlty. Tagul has some features that Wordle doesn’t, like custom shapes selection and multiply fonts usage in one cloud.

 


  7.Tweetcloud was  born out of a project to synthesize meaning from a high volume of short  messages. Our goal is to quickly show users "what's being said" across  the Twittersphere or from a specific Twitter user through an intuitive  interface (a cloud)
8.Worditout is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required! * Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator o Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables. o Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease. o Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you

9.Cloudworks, a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences.

10.Wordaizer creates word clouds in a shape. You can use any of the built-in shapes, or make your own shape. Or 'masks' as we call them. Not just horizontal or vertical words, also words placed at any angle, or even curved and curled. At any word density. Wordaizer let's you create truly unique word clouds.
PRINT AND SAVE
The result from Wordaizer is a (bitmap) picture: it can be saved on harddisk, and printed. The paper size is (of course) adjustable, allowing the user to save up to 2 x A0 (150 dpi print). You can save, print, post-process, copy, mail and publish it. Whatever you like, you have full control over the end result.
SUPERSIZE WORD CLOUD
You can save the word cloud (we like to call it 'wordlet') in a vector format: as a windows enhanced metafile ('emf' file format). That is a truly unique feature, never seen in any other 'wordle' application before. The 'emf' file wordlet can be enlarged endlessly as large as you want. Like real wallpaper if you like.
SAVE AND RE-USE
With Wordaizer you can save the full settings into a so-called project file. This is a small file that stores all the relevant settings that you used in your favourite word cloud. Simply re-open that file and continue where you left it and make another great word cloud.
LICENSE/COST
The software is free to use, is fully functional during the grace period, after which some restrictions will apply. It's freeware for non-commercial use. Some advanced features are then only available for licensed users.



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www.zoho.com/showtime I spent about an hour this morning playing about with Zoho Showtime Presenter. I am going to bring this to my students on Monday so that they can evaluate it as a potential pr…

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I own no stock in Zoho, just looks very useful and might fit student learning as a way to push the ‘repertoire envelope" for students who might strategically default to the lowest common denominator–Powerpoint.  Definitely a ‘trojan mouse’ style tool.

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Between 28 june and 1 july in PHILADELPHIA, USA  is organized ISTE’s Annual Conference and Exposition  https://www.isteconference.org/2015/ who provides many days of inspiration, learning and networking with more than 900 sessions and interactive learning environments and : 
-Four full days brimming with robust, inspirational professional learning opportunities that will help you build the skills to support digital age learning
-Unlimited networking opportunities with more than 15000 educators, education leaders and corporate representatives from around the globe
-Three powerful keynote addresses from edtech leaders and experts
-The opportunity to choose from hundreds of sessions in a variety of formats, including lectures, BYODs and hands-on learning environments
-Access to a massive expo hall featuring the latest ed tech products and services from more than 500 companies 

If you have ipad, mobile device you can usee free conference app  https://www.isteconference.org/2015/engage/mobile_app.php who is is your ISTE2015 command center, available in the Apple App Store, on Google Play, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and via the mobile web . The event offers myriad professional learning opportunities for all types of educators and education leaders, including teachers of every discipline, tech coordinators, administrators, superintendents, teacher educators and media specialists. 
Because I am #notatiste15  and I collaborate and cooperate with awesome teachers in this google plus community  https://plus.google.com/communities/102762507417207490264 I want to write this blog post for my PLN .
Dear friends like you know already from last year post when I write about my favorite 100 edtools and ipad apps rediscovered using #iste  hastag .  Like I write  before now I am Curator and Social Media Manager for http://www.euneoscourses.eu/ and also Teacher Trainer in a Erasmus Plus Course conceived by me in partenership with Euneos : Curation Social Media Master Class in Semantic Web 3.0 http://educuration.wikispaces.com/ . I must told you that I discover more than 100 presentation tools, Power Point alternatives and I want to share all  these apps you can use to emaze your audience . What app you like , use to share your awesome presentation ? Please leave a comment also if I missed a killer app to emaze a global  audience . 



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Because in 1st Ipad by Apple was relased on 3 april 2010 and since then this mobile device evolve and now are 500.000 apps in store I will share now Top 30 ipad apps to deliver awesome presentations .


View on Flowboard - Presentation software for iPad




For more edtools follow @LucianeCurator

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Earlier this evening I participated in an AWESOME hangout for #dmlcommons as part of the blog talk garage, with the awesome Alan Levine, Howard Rheingold, Jim Groom (each of these guys has a special place in my heart for different reasons) and my other blog ‘sisters’ Lee Skallerup Bessette (we’re working on some stuff together these days which has been really inspiring me) and Laura Hilliger (whom I follow but do not know well).

Here is the hangout recording, where we tackled some really interesting issues about blogging for newbies, with reference to Jeffrey’s earlier convo on Twitter re importance (or lack thereof) of comments on blogs, and questions of when, what, why we blog, how it fits in a formal classroom setting, or prof dev setting, and also what it means to have your own space, to use blogs for connecting by interweaving other blogs (i call it cross-blogging, but…) and other cool stuff… Enjoy

Now…. The back story. 7pm is my girl’s bed time. I have been really lucky in the past in getting her down by 6.55 and showing up at 7pm :) not so today. She was sick so didn’t go to daycare so wasn’t tired by 6:30. I tried to put her to bed, no luck.
Then i had tech issues with getting into the hangout. I tried my iPad mini, my android phone on wifi, then thought maybe my prob was w the wifi so tried my older iPad on 3G. The end result was i was logged on from two devices, one where i could hear folks, the other where they could hear my daughter playing around even tho i thought i was muted. Shut down all my devices but one and solved that issue. (Long story why laptop was never an option here… But no laptop was why i had no name under my video while i talked).

Thankfully I finally managed to get on. I got kicked out a couple times. My daughter learned the expression “dammit” (in English; i almost never swear in Arabic, it seems ruder for some reason, and I don’t know enough Arabic swear words anyway).

Buuuut in the end, I got on, could hear the convo and contribute and it was aaaaawwwwesooooome. I had gotten some bad news earlier that day, and the night before had been awful in a weird way, so this hangout was a high point for me.

some adventurous things that occurred during the hangout relate to managing to contribute with a 3 year old right beside me. First, she jumped onto my lap a couple times. Then, she asked to go potty a couple times (yes, the camera was off for a REASON). Next, she stopped playing w toys and turned on some music on the other iPad… Which meant if i wanted to talk i needed to get out of the room – one time she followed me out so i could not talk. In between, i occasionally fed her bites of toast and sips of milk (she is perfectly capable of feeding herself, but she knows i was not focused on her, so…. Earlier that day i was talking to Lee in a google doc and my daughter was jumping around my shoulders. Can’t blame her; she’s not that sick, not like earlier this month, thank God).

Now… I was wondering before today’s hangout if having us blog sisters on would make a difference to how the convo went. I actually never watched one of those blog talk garages even tho i started to several times (i have a v short video attention span mainly coz my kid won’t let me watch til the end)… I think they usually bring up blogs and give them “makeover” suggestions? While today it seemed more of a convo about the ideas of connecting thru blogging? I am not sure. I love that Alan nicknamed me “connect” :) i wouldn’t have chosen a better one :) and i also love how Alan talked about my blog, and said like I had 10 years of experience in my 1 year of blogging. I loved how Lee brought up the issue of audience, and how we discussed a diverse set of issues related to blogging, including the kind of trolling or abuse women sometimes faced online.

Enjoyed this so much – thanks again for inviting me, even though I sort of imposed myself by piggybacking on Lee’s tweet on “all males” with one of my own of “all white Western males” even tho i love them all :) then noticed that everywhere and blogged about it.

Oh btw – i have no idea how u guys were organizing who spoke when. I could only chat w Jim and Alan earlier then not any more… What,s up with that!

And seriously, what’s up with hangouts that ppl who use them regularly (and i don’t just mean me) sometimes get issues? I think it must be google tinkering behind our backs or something. In those ways, apps on mobile are usually more stable than on PC… So today was weird coz the device with the LEAST up to date version of hangouts app is the one that worked! Go figure…

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Earlier this evening I participated in an AWESOME hangout for #dmlcommons as part of the blog talk garage, with the awesome Alan Levine, Howard Rheingold, Jim Groom (each of these guys has a special place in my heart for different reasons) and my other blog ‘sisters’ Lee Skallerup Bessette (we’re working on some stuff together these days which has been really inspiring me) and Laura Hilliger (whom I follow but do not know well).

Here is the hangout recording, where we tackled some really interesting issues about blogging for newbies, with reference to Jeffrey’s earlier convo on Twitter re importance (or lack thereof) of comments on blogs, and questions of when, what, why we blog, how it fits in a formal classroom setting, or prof dev setting, and also what it means to have your own space, to use blogs for connecting by interweaving other blogs (i call it cross-blogging, but…) and other cool stuff… Enjoy

Now…. The back story. 7pm is my girl’s bed time. I have been really lucky in the past in getting her down by 6.55 and showing up at 7pm 🙂 not so today. She was sick so didn’t go to daycare so wasn’t tired by 6:30. I tried to put her to bed, no luck.
Then i had tech issues with getting into the hangout. I tried my iPad mini, my android phone on wifi, then thought maybe my prob was w the wifi so tried my older iPad on 3G. The end result was i was logged on from two devices, one where i could hear folks, the other where they could hear my daughter playing around even tho i thought i was muted. Shut down all my devices but one and solved that issue. (Long story why laptop was never an option here… But no laptop was why i had no name under my video while i talked).

Thankfully I finally managed to get on. I got kicked out a couple times. My daughter learned the expression “dammit” (in English; i almost never swear in Arabic, it seems ruder for some reason, and I don’t know enough Arabic swear words anyway).

Buuuut in the end, I got on, could hear the convo and contribute and it was aaaaawwwwesooooome. I had gotten some bad news earlier that day, and the night before had been awful in a weird way, so this hangout was a high point for me.

some adventurous things that occurred during the hangout relate to managing to contribute with a 3 year old right beside me. First, she jumped onto my lap a couple times. Then, she asked to go potty a couple times (yes, the camera was off for a REASON). Next, she stopped playing w toys and turned on some music on the other iPad… Which meant if i wanted to talk i needed to get out of the room – one time she followed me out so i could not talk. In between, i occasionally fed her bites of toast and sips of milk (she is perfectly capable of feeding herself, but she knows i was not focused on her, so…. Earlier that day i was talking to Lee in a google doc and my daughter was jumping around my shoulders. Can’t blame her; she’s not that sick, not like earlier this month, thank God).

Now… I was wondering before today’s hangout if having us blog sisters on would make a difference to how the convo went. I actually never watched one of those blog talk garages even tho i started to several times (i have a v short video attention span mainly coz my kid won’t let me watch til the end)… I think they usually bring up blogs and give them “makeover” suggestions? While today it seemed more of a convo about the ideas of connecting thru blogging? I am not sure. I love that Alan nicknamed me “connect” 🙂 i wouldn’t have chosen a better one 🙂 and i also love how Alan talked about my blog, and said like I had 10 years of experience in my 1 year of blogging. I loved how Lee brought up the issue of audience, and how we discussed a diverse set of issues related to blogging, including the kind of trolling or abuse women sometimes faced online.

Enjoyed this so much – thanks again for inviting me, even though I sort of imposed myself by piggybacking on Lee’s tweet on “all males” with one of my own of “all white Western males” even tho i love them all 🙂 then noticed that everywhere and blogged about it.

Oh btw – i have no idea how u guys were organizing who spoke when. I could only chat w Jim and Alan earlier then not any more… What,s up with that!

And seriously, what’s up with hangouts that ppl who use them regularly (and i don’t just mean me) sometimes get issues? I think it must be google tinkering behind our backs or something. In those ways, apps on mobile are usually more stable than on PC… So today was weird coz the device with the LEAST up to date version of hangouts app is the one that worked! Go figure…

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Earlier this evening I participated in an AWESOME hangout for #dmlcommons as part of the blog talk garage, with the awesome Alan Levine, Howard Rheingold, Jim Groom (each of these guys has a special place in my heart for different reasons) and my other blog ‘sisters’ Lee Skallerup Bessette (we’re working on some stuff together these days which has been really inspiring me) and Laura Hilliger (whom I follow but do not know well).

Here is the hangout recording, where we tackled some really interesting issues about blogging for newbies, with reference to Jeffrey’s earlier convo on Twitter re importance (or lack thereof) of comments on blogs, and questions of when, what, why we blog, how it fits in a formal classroom setting, or prof dev setting, and also what it means to have your own space, to use blogs for connecting by interweaving other blogs (i call it cross-blogging, but…) and other cool stuff… Enjoy

Now…. The back story. 7pm is my girl’s bed time. I have been really lucky in the past in getting her down by 6.55 and showing up at 7pm 🙂 not so today. She was sick so didn’t go to daycare so wasn’t tired by 6:30. I tried to put her to bed, no luck.
Then i had tech issues with getting into the hangout. I tried my iPad mini, my android phone on wifi, then thought maybe my prob was w the wifi so tried my older iPad on 3G. The end result was i was logged on from two devices, one where i could hear folks, the other where they could hear my daughter playing around even tho i thought i was muted. Shut down all my devices but one and solved that issue. (Long story why laptop was never an option here… But no laptop was why i had no name under my video while i talked).

Thankfully I finally managed to get on. I got kicked out a couple times. My daughter learned the expression “dammit” (in English; i almost never swear in Arabic, it seems ruder for some reason, and I don’t know enough Arabic swear words anyway).

Buuuut in the end, I got on, could hear the convo and contribute and it was aaaaawwwwesooooome. I had gotten some bad news earlier that day, and the night before had been awful in a weird way, so this hangout was a high point for me.

some adventurous things that occurred during the hangout relate to managing to contribute with a 3 year old right beside me. First, she jumped onto my lap a couple times. Then, she asked to go potty a couple times (yes, the camera was off for a REASON). Next, she stopped playing w toys and turned on some music on the other iPad… Which meant if i wanted to talk i needed to get out of the room – one time she followed me out so i could not talk. In between, i occasionally fed her bites of toast and sips of milk (she is perfectly capable of feeding herself, but she knows i was not focused on her, so…. Earlier that day i was talking to Lee in a google doc and my daughter was jumping around my shoulders. Can’t blame her; she’s not that sick, not like earlier this month, thank God).

Now… I was wondering before today’s hangout if having us blog sisters on would make a difference to how the convo went. I actually never watched one of those blog talk garages even tho i started to several times (i have a v short video attention span mainly coz my kid won’t let me watch til the end)… I think they usually bring up blogs and give them “makeover” suggestions? While today it seemed more of a convo about the ideas of connecting thru blogging? I am not sure. I love that Alan nicknamed me “connect” 🙂 i wouldn’t have chosen a better one 🙂 and i also love how Alan talked about my blog, and said like I had 10 years of experience in my 1 year of blogging. I loved how Lee brought up the issue of audience, and how we discussed a diverse set of issues related to blogging, including the kind of trolling or abuse women sometimes faced online.

Enjoyed this so much – thanks again for inviting me, even though I sort of imposed myself by piggybacking on Lee’s tweet on “all males” with one of my own of “all white Western males” even tho i love them all 🙂 then noticed that everywhere and blogged about it.

Oh btw – i have no idea how u guys were organizing who spoke when. I could only chat w Jim and Alan earlier then not any more… What,s up with that!

And seriously, what’s up with hangouts that ppl who use them regularly (and i don’t just mean me) sometimes get issues? I think it must be google tinkering behind our backs or something. In those ways, apps on mobile are usually more stable than on PC… So today was weird coz the device with the LEAST up to date version of hangouts app is the one that worked! Go figure…

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I attended this showcase last year as a Writing Fellow at Lehman College. It was a friendly venue, including a nice lunch, and it would be a supportive group to discuss some of the technology-based work you are doing in the CUNY classroom, especially as our work has a cross-campus focus.

Call for Presentations

2015 Bronx CUNY EdTech Showcase!

Sponsored by Lehman College, Hostos and Bronx Community Colleges

Theme: Beyond Higher Education: Technology & Community
Submission deadline for proposals: Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Conference Date: Friday May 8, 2015
9:00 am
 - 4 pm  
Repertory Theater
Hostos Community College, Bronx NY

Join the three Bronx CUNY colleges for a very special opportunity to discuss the impact of technology across the education spectrum from high schools through undergraduate, workforce development and beyond. This year our committee seeks cross-community, cross-campus and cross-disciplinary groups and individuals to lead discussions and share success stories, ideas and roadmaps that can assist in leading, innovating and representing change. Those exemplary activities that feature collaboration, pedagogical innovation, institutional change and of course unique classroom methodologies with technology, are encouraged. Whether you consider yourself a proficient specialist, a ‘work-in-progress,’  a novice or first-time adopter, you are welcome to apply!  Click here for more information

The Bronx CUNY EdTech Showcase is Friday, May 8th. Breakfast and registration begins at 9:00 am and the program starts promptly at 9:45 am. Parking details and additional directions are available on our website:CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS

For any additional information, and RSVP please visit our homepage: http://CUNY.is/bronxedtech

We’re looking forward to seeing you on Friday, May 8th

Visit our website and find video recordings from the presentations at last year’s Showcase and leave your feedback. Here is one of them:

Rap Genius in the Classroom

Abstract

G.D. Peters, Substitute Lecturer, English, Lehman.
Rap Genius began as a rap lyric website, but it has since moved far beyond just rap, with unique home pages for Rock, News, and Poetry. At its heart, the ‘Genius’ sites provide a social-collaborative annotation platform. Like Wikipedia, it’s a crowd-sourced database that allows any users to add content. Unlike Wikipedia, Genius invites users to annotate documents, to break down and close read novels, short stories, poems, and a wide variety of other texts.

Video and more info: http://commons.hostos.cuny.edu/bronxedtech/rap-genius-in-the-classroom/

http://cuny.is/bronxedtech

 

Bronx EdTech 2015 Showcase Steering Committee

Mark Lennerton at 718.289.5655, email: mark.lennerton@bcc.cuny.edu

Albert Robinson at 718.289.5100 ext. 3063, email: albert.robinson@bcc.cuny.edu

Alyson Vogel at Lehman College: 347.577.4024alyson.vogel@lehman.cuny.edu

Stephen Castellano at Lehman College: 718.960.8658, email  stephen.castellano@lehman.cuny.edu

Carlos Guevara at Hostos: 718.319.7974, email: cguevara@hostos.cuny.edu

Kate Lyons at Hostos: 718.518.4213, email: clyons@hostos.cuny.edu

Lisa Tappeiner at 718.518.4221, email: etappeiner@hostos.cuny.edu