Anatomy/Health

Did you ever want to show the students the mistakes that keep occurring within their writing as a class? Do you want to show them the variety of words, or lack of, that are a part of their writing? There is an easy and very visual way to do this called Word Clouds. You can enter an entire class of papers by copying and pasting using digital copies of student papers before they turn in their finals.      www.wordle.net

Once you have entered the papers, the words that are not common like "the" or "it" can be removed and the rest of the vocabulary used by a class put together. The bigger the word, the more often it was used. Above is a demonstration of a paper that was entered into Wordle and you can see the correlation to how often a word is used. The same will show up with common mistakes in spelling.

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There are two great applications that will allow you to teach to the students with a 3D visual right at their fingertips and yours. So far I have found two that are free for the iPad that are called 3DBrain and Ess. Skeleton 2. This will help those visual and kinesthetic learners that you have in your class who need help to visually see the parts that you are talking about.

Take the time to look at these free apps and you will see what they can do to enhance your teaching with visuals.

Skeleton 2 is an interactive program which will allow the students to not only manipulate the bone structure, but receive information for that bone.