Amethyst is a Rock Star!!!!

I loved the activity we did today because I recently bought my girlfriend an amethyst ring for Valentine's Day. I did not know much about the stone but thought it looked nice, plus purple is her favorite color. The rock star activity also gave me some perspective on how students can use the worldwide web to learn  content. I thought the activity was simple and straightforward so almost any type of learner could accomplish this task. The website we were supposed to use looked a little tacky so I searched Wikipedia and gathered all my information from there. I see nothing wrong with my students doing the same for a small activity such as this. Honestly, I love 486 class because we are allowed to have some freedom to explore. Speaking of exploring...Wordle! Wordle is an online tool that allows users to paste text, url, or delicious file and form a 'word cloud' with text size appearing in reference to amount of word use. I think this tool is interesting but the uses do seem somewhat limited. I only enjoyed forming word clouds for five to ten minutes. Wordle fatigue... I guess!