What is Wordle:
A Wordle is a graphic
representation of the most frequently used words in a blog, free
write, or speech, and Wordle.net is the site that has bloggers
cheering! It's simple, fun and
creative.
To create a Wordle, simply go to Wordle.net, enter in the RSS feed for
a blog or text, hit submit and let the site do the rest. After
creating the Wordle, users are able to customize the look of it.
Options range from color to size and shape.
One of the benefits of
using a Wordle blog is that it adds
variety -- allowing readers to see what
you're most passionate about in a creative
way.
Resources:Guess the WordleInaugural Speeches of all US Presidents23 Ways To Use Wordle
20 Uses for Wordle
It's a Mad Mad Wordle
Let's Make A Wordle (PowerPoint)
Wordle Book Ads
Wordle Tutorial 40 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle
Other Word Cloud Tools: Tagul.com TagCrowd.com
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| High Yield Teaching Strategies Using Wordle
| | Identifying Similarities & Differences | Create Wordles from two different poems are speeches. Identify the similarities and differences.
| | Summarizing & Note Taking | Put notes in Wordle and then analyze. Which words are used more frequently, etc. Take text from text book. Create wordle and use this to summarize the paragraph or chapter.
| | Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition |
| | Homework & Practice |
| | Nonlinguistic Representation | Although this is made by words, using color and size to represent words would be considered nonlinguistic.
| | Cooperative Learning |
| | Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback |
| | Generating & Testing Hypotheses | Based on a generated wordle, my some predictions.
| | Cues, Questions, & Advance Organizers | Use as an advanced organizer to discuss vocabulary etc.
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