Using Wordle in the classroom can give students something to look at that can make them think and have deep thoughts about what the wordle says in the big bold letters. Wordle can also be used by students to create something that is important to them and their life. It it a great way to decorate the classroom as a poster as well!
My "Success" Wordle:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3350962/Untitled
Source:
http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/success-quotes.html
Good job. I just read a blog post today (http://bit.ly/gbfdEt) and it had lots of ideas for using word clouds (like Wordle):
ReplyDelete• overview or revision of a unit of work;
• making predictions – use word clouds before students read or listen to a text and ask them to make predictions about the content of the text based on the word cloud;
• text comparisons – create word clouds from several poems, short stories or articles and have students read the complete texts and match them to the word clouds.
• create word clouds based on famous speeches and analyse the results by looking at the common words.
• create a word cloud wall where students can brainstorm synonyms, antonyms or definitions for lists of vocabulary words.
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