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I decided to try a suggestion mentioned in a post by Joyce Valenza, web 2.0 librarian extraordinaire, to create a library sign from the Dewey Decimal library classification system. School Library Journal post Oct. 2, 2008

This example is for the 800s section of the library.

Can you think of other applications for Wordle?

A song? A famous speech? A poem or a poets’ favorite images, or metaphors? An essay? A quote from a Washington monument? Notes taken by students on a field trip to a museum? … or before going to the museum? Key vocabulary in a subject? This month’s spelling words?

Leave your thoughts and Wordle examples as a comment for others to enjoy and use.

WWDC 2008 Keynote Address

Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil iPhone 3G, the App Store, MobileMe, and more in his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address from San Francisco’s Moscone West. See the video-on-demand (VOD) event at this website, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.

Microsoft’s History and Future in 3:40 Minutes

Thanks to Wesley Fryer’s post, Online kids are readers!, I learned about Scholastic’s reading report and about www.readthewords.com, a free website that allows me to upload a document that Read the Words then processes and reads back to me. I can turn it into an mp3 file or podcast that I can then post to my blog, wiki or website and sit back while the report is read to me in a voice I select. Enjoy this demo; you can download the PDF file of the report from the innovation3 box in the left column, courtesy of www.box.net.

Wes Fryer and family share this VoiceThread with us. Rachael’s trip to get her hair cut short was an opportunity for the family to create a Web 2.0 artifact for family and friends. Feel free to add your comments so Rachael can know you enjoyed her story. With help from dad’s pictures, Rachael presents a really complete story of a trip to the stylist.