Virtual Museums

Wandering through the virtual worlds that are put at our disposal thanks to the internet, I have quite recently found some virtual tours in some great of the world. Here are the link to them:

- The Sistine Chapel
- The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History


Enjoy!

Touring Museums

Below there are several links to some of the most important museums in the world. They are all famous for the great value of their exhibits, which bring each year more and more visitors. In groups take one of the museums and look for information to fill in the Google document you receive from me.

Group 1: Ciufudean Mihai, Rebega Remus, Lapadat Ilie, Dindeal Tudor, Botarel Cosmin
- Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Group 2: Cirlan Mihai Gabriel, Comaniciu Razvan, Bejan Emanuel, Mandea Constantin, Vilcu Ioan

- The Louvre Museum

Group 3: Birbichiu Pavel, Lutoiu Stefan, Morar Catalin, Trifu Ionut, Bunea Stefan

- The Hermitage Museum

Group 4: Marcu Andrei, Vacarus Cosmin, Droc Adrian, Teasa Laurentiu, Daju Ioan
- The Vatican Museums

Group 5: Ciociu Cristina, Lucian Stanca, Negrila Andrei, Oancea Silviu, Carp Vasile,
- The British Museum

Group 6: Savencu Catalin, Chirila Catalin, Radu Nicolae, Goghi Ianos, Munteanu Rares
- The Peles Museum

After you have completed the questions, you will use the information to design a poster in Glogster. Your poster will contain information about the admission fees, the name of the museum, its location, the opening hours and some words about its exhibits. For the rest, feel free to use your imagination!!! As a second part of your assignments, you will post your poster on your personal wikispace page. Good luck!!!

Wordle

Wordle is a site/ toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Such word clouds can be used as starter points for a conversation, as they contain the most important words or the most common ones in a text. You can then ask students to build ideas using the words in the cloud, to make up the story. Moreover, such a text cloud could also be used as a summarizing tool, at the end of one of your students' activities, they can summarize their most important ideas on a topic by playing with the tool in order to create a word cloud that would illustrate their work.

The works obtained can then be wither saved as PDF files, through the print button or as images through printscreens. The only condition for the site to work is to have already installed in your computer the Java Platform.

Puzzlemaker at Discovery Education

If in search of various word games like puzzles, word search, or hidden massage one of the best places to go is on the Discovery site at the Education section of this site. It is here that both as a teacher and as a student, you can find plenty of resources to satisfy your curiosity in more fields- maths, science, English language. In this site there is also a specific section in the top menu, where they offer plenty of word games, that can be used as mere games, or as useful educational tools in class. To go to the Puzzlemaker page, just click on the this link.