Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Wordle
I spent a couple of hours studying, practicing and creating my Wordle. This is a great site to use with no registration requirements. The words I used are the people, sites, landmarks, political and cultural characteristics of Latin America. Students could use Wordle to create themes and characters from a book, as thank-yous for teachers and loved ones and as vocabulary enhancement skills. As a teacher I could use Wordle to demonstrate class rules, class concepts and information review.
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WOW! That's a lot of words in your wordle! But what great results. It could be a bulletin board or web graphic (for your wiki!) or a poster for your room for the whole year.
ReplyDeleteI just read a blog post recently (http://bit.ly/gbfdEt) and it had lots of ideas for using word clouds (like Wordle):
• 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.
And 50 more here! http://bit.ly/g4VT3k
Great WORDLE!!