Wordle: Application in the Classroom?
I decided to try a suggestion mentioned in a post by Joyce Valenza, web 2.0 librarian extraordinaire, to create a library sign from the Dewey Decimal library classification system. School Library Journal post Oct. 2, 2008
This example is for the 800s section of the library.
Can you think of other applications for Wordle?
A song? A famous speech? A poem or a poets’ favorite images, or metaphors? An essay? A quote from a Washington monument? Notes taken by students on a field trip to a museum? … or before going to the museum? Key vocabulary in a subject? This month’s spelling words?
Leave your thoughts and Wordle examples as a comment for others to enjoy and use.
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
October 31st, 2008 at 9:06 am
I just “Wordleized” some fall poems that third graders had written. They adored the experience and spent more than a little time perfecting their word clouds with changing fonts, sizes and colors. Their teacher is planning to post them to her classroom SharePoint wiki. Sadly, the wiki is not public. I am planning to use Wordle with fifth graders by having then turn their human body organ lists into word clouds by systems. Students will then have to guess what system other students have done.
[Reply]