Dutch+Knickmeyer,+Create+A+Graph

Dutch Knickmeyer

Create A Graph

 * __ Introduction __**

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

I choose to go with Create-A-Graph. Create-A-Graph does exactly what it’s name implies. The site is user friendly and I have no doubt that students could use it to collaborate together online for projects. Another reason I choose it is because graphs are such useful tools for any subject at pretty much any level. It’s also part of the more general NCES sites, which put’s even more information easily at hand. I found out about this site from research, and it was listed in an article 101 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers(http://www.goedonline.com/101-web-tools-for-teachers).


 * __ Incorporating it into a classroom __**

Graphs have been used in classrooms for years. Teachers will always have a use for graphs. What I like about the site above is that you can quickly and with ease make you own graphs. In a relatively short period of time I was able to go onto Wikipedia, probably the most well known, and purest of all wiki sites and get the information that was necessary to make a graph about the relative size of the various planets in the solar system. You could also design graphs that could show how your various classes were doing in competition. The example that I gave is pretty simple, it just follows a food drive and how the different classes did. With the user friendliness of the site it would be very easy to allow your students collaborate on projects. You could have them work in groups with various students responsible for various parts of each graph be it design, research, etc. You could also have students who are in different hours working together in groups.