PPS Instructional Technology

Word clouds are a wonderful thing.  They take paragraphs of text and turn them into analytical artwork.  Many of you are familiar with common word cloud creators like Wordle and Tagxedo , but unfortunately for those of us living in the chromebook world, these sites won't work.  This snag led our amazing building tech, Joshua, on a quest to find some word cloud creators that will work well on the chromebooks so our teachers and students can continue to build their beautiful work art.  Below you will find the results of his quest... Tagxedo doesn’t work in Chrome, and Wordle is finicky. What to do? Try another word cloud creator, like  www.wordclouds.com . You’ll be greeted with a generic word cloud. No sign-in necessary. Your first step is to add some text to the word cloud. Click File>Paste/Type text: This opens a window for entering your words. This takes text from anywhere, and the more times a word occurs in the text, the larger it will appea...

Make it visual! Paste information collected with a form into a Wordle to see what the most common responses were for the survey. Graphing your Data! In a few clicks, you can graph data in a google spreadsheet.  Google has a great help document on creating a graph.  Check it out here . Add Ons: Flubaroo - Self Grading Quizzes Have you given a quiz with a Google Form and wanted a quick way to grade it?  If so, then the flubaroo add on is just what you are looking for!  Not only can it grade multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, it can also compute the average score for the assignment, compute the average score per question and flag low-scoring questions, show you a grade distribution graph, allow you to email each student their grade and the answer key (optional) or send individual feedback to each student.  Learn more at:  http://www.flubaroo.com/flubaroo-user-guide .