Today in class we first explored visual thesaurus, which is a website that assists visual learners with mastering vocabulary words. The website was very useful because it had images for each term that was typed into the search engine. The site also helps you make a connection with words in the same word family. This website also assists individuals with spelling and it maps out the verbs, adjectives, and nouns. This website is very useful for English language arts and word work inside of the classroom. The next website that we explored was lexipedia, which also gives you the nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, synonyms and antonyms. The website lexipedia is a great website for categorizing words and breaking down different parts of speech. In the future I would definitely use lexivideo. After that as a class we explored vocabulary dot com which quizzes individuals on the meaning of each term. As a class we had to read sentences and figure out the meanings of each word. This vocabulary website would be good for a exit slip inside of the classroom or a reflection point. After that as a class we explored virtual trips on the website plimoth. The virtual Trip was very useful because we were able to watch an actual video that gave us a tour of an actual site. Virtual field trips are create components for lessons that require students to explore different cultures. We spent a great deal of time typing different locations around the world on google maps and thinking about interactive lessons that we can create using the street view of google maps. We then watched a video about minecraft and had a interesting conversation with a mine craft player who answered several questions as we used the "TPACK" model.
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