Wordle is a 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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. (Jonathon Feinberg). This can be used to by students to enhance vocabulary, use as a group project, to make a graphic designs that promote cognitive development and social interactions. Encourage visual and hands on learning. Nets for Students: Extended Rubric for Grades PK-2 can: Promote Basic Operations and Concepts, Social, ethical and human issues, Technology Productivity Tools, Technology Communication tools and Technology problem solving and Decision Making Tools.
Disadvantage would be students may take extended time to develop word clouds. Some may need more time to determine which words to use. A teacher would need to specify a time limit and a word count. Advantage is the students are able to view and manipulate onscreen the words and promote literacy through vocabulary.
Cynthia: Did you try out Wordle? You might have Wordle create a graphic for your blog. I found this site with ideas submitted by teachers on how to use Wordle in the classroom.
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