What it is: With President Obama’s Inauguration speech looming on the horizon, this site is worth a look. Inauguration Speech Generator is like a mad lib, fill in the blank that generates a speech for President Obama to say. 🙂 Students enter words in the blanks according to the part of speech that is requested and then read the speech they have written for our soon to be president.
How to integrate Inauguration Speech Generator into the classroom: This is a great lead in to teach students about the Inauguration of President Obama. It is also a fun way to practice those parts of speech! Students can fill in the blanks individually and share with a partner, or a speech can be generated as a whole class. This would be a fun thing to do right before the inauguration. Save the students version of the speech. They can compare and contrast their speech with the actual inauguration speech after viewing it.
Tips: The inauguration is supposed to be live on CNN, it would be fun to watch live but I suspect that Internet may be slow that day! Those of you with cable in the classroom take advantage!!
Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Inauguration Speech Generator in your classroom.
I haven’t yet used the inauguration speech generator, but it looks pretty cool. I’ll try to use it next week with with my students.
I just came across your blog, and I gotta say that it’s pretty useful. I like how your blog postings have three sections on how to describe the technology, how to integrate, and helpful tips. I especially think that the integrating piece is important for teachers.
I put your blog on my blog links, and I’ll definitely check it regularly.
Keep up the good work!
When I choose the link for the Inauguration Speech Generator I get to the atom.com website and I can not find the Inauguration Speech Generator.
Missy, the speech generator may have been a temporary site while the presidential election was going. I’ll do an additional post if I can find a similar tool.