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Museum Box / Go Animate

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Museum Box is based on the work of Thomas Clarkson who collected items in a box to help him in his argument for abolition of slavery. Clarkson collected items in a box to demonstrate the fine craftsmanship and abilities of the African American culture. He used the box as a sort of travel museum to aid his debate on slavery.  

Educators can use Museum Box as a medium for classrooms to learn about and collect materials about a historical event, person, and time period. Allowing students to upload their own content to a box you could easily have them create a box about themselves. A geography lesson could be fun. The students can make a box all about a place including items in their box that a unique to that place. This tool is great! After a class has constructed boxes, spend time viewing other classmates boxes and leaving comments about the box. This tool is so great because it builds a science fair atmosphere for history, geography, and literature. I wish I had this tool while I was in school!

Go Animate

Go Animate is another good website where students can easily make animated conversation with a short typed dialogue. By choosing the settings, characters and written dialogue to be spoken, this site can generate a speech very quickly.

The Web tool is FREE at the BASIC LEVL, some scenes and characters will require payment. A login name will be needed, so you might want to set up a class account. Finished videos can be linked to or embedded in your blogs. You may also download a HD video file for a small fee. Here is a funny political Wasabi video produced in Go animate

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Wordle, Storyjumper, and Popplet

The website http://www.wordle.net/ tool looks to be helpful by using word clouds to show important words from an article. The words you make are can be printed out and shared with anyone. Creating a Wordle about yourself could be a good tool for a class room to learn who you. This website has many different uses allowing a classroom many more ways to better understand any topic.

www.storyjumper.com allows anyone to create a children’s story book. The book you create can be viewed online or ordered in a hard cover. The possibilities of this tool are almost endless. Children in classrooms could all create their books and share them with each other. Storyjumper is a very good tool for early childhood educators. 

www.popplet.com is a great brain storming tool. You can create webs that can prepare a student to make a well organized paper. This can also be used to show connection between historical events.  Most of all Popplet can create class room discussion allowing students to learn from each other’s ideas.