An assignment for one of my classes is to redesign the lyrics to a song by reformatting the text of the words. We can only use text, no pictures and no color, so it is a bit challenging, but pretty interesting. Through this assignment, I found a great resource that could be useful in the classroom. The resource is called dafont.com, which is a website that has hundreds of free fonts that you can download and use in Word documents. I think that this would be a really great resource to use in the classroom when creating newsletters, posters, name cards or anything that involves text! It is really easy to use and install fonts on your computer and you can use them in any application. I am really glad that I found this resource and I plan to use it in my classroom!!
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I thought this was a very interesting thing to post about! I never really thought of fonts when thinking about new technology in the classroom. I think utilyzing new fonts is a great way to keep children involved and interested in things. It is fun for not only the students but us as teacher too! I think i would have a blast picking out new fonts for projects and name cards. Thanks for the website too, very cool.
ReplyDeleteYeah! I think it's an awesome resource that can be used in so many different ways! And it's something that not everyone always thinks about, but can be very resourceful!
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