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March10_Rambo Wow! Wordle is one of the coolest tools ever! I love this tool! It takes your paper and turns it into a piece of art. What a neat idea! Well, my thesis, in case you couldn't figure it out from my Wordle, was about the use of social networks in the classroom to increase student participation. For my media project, I created a MySpace page to be used in conjunction with my Language Art's classroom. This social network classroom page was to be used as an extension of our classroom. It was to provide a way for students to easily collaborate on assignments and homework outside of the classroom. The social network classroom page came out very well, and I look forward to someday being able to implement something like this schoolwide! I love this Wordle! My thesis is about how Digital Storytelling can be used as a medium for improving literacy among students who are learning English as a Second Language. My wordle keeps my students in the center of everything else, and that is how I see my classroom and the projects that they created. Besides reading, writing, listening and speaking, these students learned the importance of planning ahead and media literacy. March_11 Eaton Reducing Drop-out rates of ADD/ADHD students through the use of technology and Web 2.0 tools. My Wordle captured the essence of our students today. They are digital natives. The word digital was used extensively throughout the proposal and the use of digital media is the main ingredient, in helping students with ADD/ADHD feel successful; thus reducing drop out rates. The word digitallFOCUS was prominent due to the fact that the digitallFOCUS Portal is the very thing that is driving the learning material for the educator to tap into the mind of the digital native student. My thesis and media project is a direct reflection of the Wordle image that was created.

March_11 Greene Virtual High Schools: A Solution to US Dropout Rates My Wordle depicts the vocabulary that makes up most of my thesis. Virtual and distance learning as a way of helping to combat the US dropout rates is the main focus of my research and will be the objective of Virtual Alternatives. At the center of it all is the word "Virtual" which is the foundation upon which my media project and my thesis is built. Its interesting how the word "Learning" is displayed equally as large since the bottom line for all of what we are doing in this EMDT program as students is acquiring additional knowledge and passing it on to our students and peers, i.e., learning.

March 10 Nehrig My Wordle is an accurate illustration of the goals I wish to accomplish as a result of my thesis and media project. The largest text shows the obvious relationship to student reading achievement and overall learning as a result of the project. The second largest text exemplifies the delivery medium (game) and its intended user (male students). Overall, it makes a visual representation of the most important features of the media project. I'm kinda surprised that I didn't use the title of my video game (Fairy Tales in a Fix) often enough to be seen in the Wordle. March 10 Achuff This Worlde represents the emotion of my thesis in several ways. I chose bright vibrate colors because my thesis is about the creative arts. The colors are engaging and bright which is what the arts are about. My thesis delves into the expansion of these classes because of state cuts. The sharp angles and abrupt edges reflect these changes. The arrangement of words is structured but forms an overall abstract shape. My thesis topic mirrors this in that the goal of the teacher is to create an atmosphere that resembles structure but is more of an abstract blob due to State constraints. March 10 Durrant This wordle definitely captures the essence of both my thesis and the media project itself. The basis of my thesis is engaging and motivating student learning through technology and project-based activities. I felt that this would best be done by creating a website that provides teachers with how-to’s and examples of projects that can help to motivate and engage students in learning. March 10 Brockenberry The visual representation reflect the essence of my thesis. Both the content proposal and the thesis hinge on the principle of community being a supportive agent for teachers to implement that which they learn. The focus of my work is using the professional community to receive training and to collaborate through an online learning platform. Teachers would use digital tools to be active members of a learning community. And aptly, the most prominent term in this image is learning. The teacher must be supported after training so that they have confidence. "Teachers" and "training" are the key, as shown. Month_10 Spleen This Wordle image captures the essence of my thesis because the four words that are highlighted the most are teachers, learning, technology and students. This is exactly my thesis and my project; to help teachers make the most of their in service learning and help them incorporate technology into their classrooms. I also really liked that many of the smaller words that hold the image together are the pieces or tools that I talked about using to make this idea work. I like the variation in color too.



 Month_10 Woods Interactive Digital Portfolio Course Management System The wordle image does take a snapshot of my thesis. I explored how Brain Based and MI approach could be accomplished more efficiently for the teacher and more engagingly for the student through a digital portfolio and course management system. The heart of the thesis includes feedback and multiple ways of engagement for the learner. This wordle is heavy with students and learning.



March 10_ Douglas ADHD: Help the works! This Wordle image did capture my thesis well. ADHD being the biggest word is perfect as the entire thesis in about Attention Deficit Disorder and I use the acronym ADHD numerous times throughout the document. Then symptoms, behavioral and techniques are the next biggest words. I think this is perfect as well. In my thesis I discuss the symptoms of the disorder extensively. Then I propose behavioral techniques that will relieve the symptoms of the disorder. Then treatment is the next biggest word which is fitting too as I discuss the behavioral techniques extensively throughout the document. Content Proposal Reflection March 2010 March 10_Walden Blogging in the Classroom- The Wordle image did capture the meaning of my thesis. It almost spells out, using the biggest words, what my students were engaged in for the thesis project: blog-learning-information-student-project. Pretty cool. I also like the fact that the word ‘students’ is the biggest of all. They were the ones that my thesis project was meant for. I wanted to improve their education through new technological means. Also, having the biggest word be ‘student’ could mean I need to find various synonyms for the word ‘student’ when writing a thesis paper. Ha.

March 10_Settle Technology Integration in the Classroom. The words that stand out the most are the reason why I created my media project. Learner, project, technology, students, and skills. More 21st century skills are needed in the classroom to create project-based learning for students. The word “able” is also in the forefront, which allows me to feel a sense that my media project will help educators establish and integrate new types of technology in their classroom curriculum.

March10_Keegan Simulations as Educational Learning Tools- My initial reaction is that this image places emphasis on the key words to my thesis simulation, learning, games and students. Further after asking colleagues and students what captured their attention from the image, technology was the response. In looking at this collage of words in reference to my thesis the given spotlight is one that complements the theme. Those students in the 21st-century crave technology knowledge, which is interactive to them.



March10_Farmer

Virtual Homerooms--a small learning community is how I describe my media project and thesis. I think that students need as many contacts with mentors as possible. I think that students working together can become friends and push one another towards a positive goal. I loved this word project. I have always thought these kinds of word pictures were fascinating and even was trying to create a small one for my video project. But this service is so much better then the ideas I had on Premier Pro. I might have highlighted things slightly differently but this configuration was the closest to what I wanted. I like how the main words of learning and homeroom stand out because if I had to pick two words only it would be those two. March10_Jones

====My thesis: The Problem of Socio-Economic Life Skill Deficits led me to create my media project "Create Your Own Future". The emphasis on the Wordle my Content Proposal created appears to be on the Student, information, learning, environment. That is exactly what my project is all about. It is a Web based learning environment filled with information for students to use to bridge the gap between what they are taught in the traditional classroom environment and what skills they will additionally need to be successful in the adult working world in their future.====



March 10_Burgess

Wow! Amazing. This image definitely captures what my content proposal and thesis is all about. The words "media", "production", "students", "live", "website", "certification", all appropriately stand out. These are perfect descriptors for my media project. I created a website that provides the necessary curriculum for my students to learn how to produce broadcast programs that mimic real media. When they create such productions, they will be enhancing their 21st century skill set.



March_10_Pucik Using the Multiple Intelligences to Teach An Online Technology Class I think my Wordle image captured the essence of my thesis paper but might have missed some of the finer details. My paper discusses combining Web 2.0 tools with the multiple intelligences to make online classes more engaging and accessible. Media and information are displayed prominently on the image as well as multiple intelligences. However the individual intelligences are small. This makes me wonder if I focused too much on Web 2.0 tools and not enough on the intelligences. Pucik_Chad

Month09_Hall I have never used Wordle. I really like it! I love how the most important words from my content proposal are bigger. It must be based on words that show up the most, maybe? It sure seems that way. I think it really gets the idea of my media proposal across. I just wish that virtual field trips were altogether or at least all the same size, because they have equal importance. Danielle Hall

March_10_Randall I do believe this image captures the essence of my project and thesis. It focuses on the hospital/homebound student and the need for cooperative learning and how this can be accomplished using technology. When creating my image in wordle, I liked the way it formed with “students” and “classroom” sticking out, seemingly reaching out across the chasm that usually isolates students who cannot be in the classroom.

March 11 Uwaibi This Wordle is cool. I tried to capture all the words that met the most within my thesis and my content proposal. My thesis is all about creating astructure for video games to be used "correctly" in education. So, through my wordle design I try to create that visual. My Content proposal is using  a structured simulation game to build practical knowledge as well as interpersonal skills. Uwaibi_Kendall March_10_Blood Something I really loved about this Wordle is how much the word STUDENT showed up. I was unaware how often I had used the word in my thesis and this really projects it as the center of my project. Even though my project is mostly geared toward the teachers, the students are really what matters the most and I'm glad that they stand out :)

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