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Welcome to my Wiki!

 * My name is Debra Carroso and I am the RtI district coach for Community Consolidated School District 89 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. On my wiki we will work together to brainstorm ways to integrate technology throughout the curriculum. As we discover new ways we will add to this page so it will be an evolving resource.**

Wordle generates a graphic representation of the most commonly used words in a text and transforms them into word clouds. Choose the links below to get to Wordle and discover many ways it can be used in the classroom.


 * Ways to use [|Wordle]**


 * [|38 Ways to Use Wordle in the classroom]**


 * [|More Ways to use Wordle]**


 * [|Flickr] is a photo sharing site. You can search it for Creative Commons photos. This means that you can use photos tagged creative commons in your classroom without violating copyright laws. To search a topic for a photo select Advance Search. Scroll down and check the box** Only search within **Creative Commons**-licensed content.

[|Zoo Burst] is a cool tool that allows you to create your own virtual 3-D pop up books. You can get a K-12 account and create up to 10 free books.

[|My Story Maker] is a story writing program that allows students to choose characters, simple themes, actions and emotions to write their own books. It will even create sentence starters and simple sentences based on what is chosen to be included in the story. Once the story is completed it can be printed or viewed on line.

[|TweenTribune] is a site where students can read appropriate news stories and write comments about them. They can also read and comment on other students comments. You can register your classroom to generate custom pages related to your students' reading interests and comments.


 * A great website to go to is [|techteachers]**


 * You can choose Mini Lessons to view short "how to" tech demonstrations.**