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After using tag galaxy for the first time I
was very intrigued. It is a simple, visual tool which is lots of fun to use.
When you get onto the site, you simply
enter a tag (anything you could possibly think of, there are tags for pretty
much everything) and away you go. The next page is a visual 3D galaxy. In the centre
will be the biggest planet (your tag) and around it there are smaller orbiting
planets which are the words relating to the keyword. When you click on any of
the planets you zoon into a globe populated by pictures which are tagged to the
word.
In classroom lessons this Web2 can make a
boring lesson more fun and motivate the students at the same time. For example,
if there was a lesson on geography, you could use the name of a country for the
keyword. Everything related to that country would come up in the orbiting
planets, including pictures. It is also a brilliant way for students to explore
the relationships between words visually.
I would also use this idea as a way of
revising. On paper students could use the topic title as their “centre planet”
and then use the keywords of that topic as their “orbiting planets”.
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