Word Clouds proliferating

Just the Word & WORDLE…a match made in [lexical] heaven..

Plain text stories can be obtained from Gutenberg.

Jamie Keddie has come up with some very interesting ideas for using Wordle in language teaching. Go to his blog and search "Wordle".

An action research article in LLT: Using Wordles to teach foreign language writing by

• • Melissa Baralt, Florida International University

  • Susan Pennestri, Georgetown University

  • Marie Selvandin, Georgetown University

Five Vegies: a nice graphic

Compare and Contrast

This Wordle use a list of Keywords from Love Story that was generated by the Compleat Lexical Tutor: Keywords (tool). Click here for the process and some important notes (IE recommended for the CLT site)

In contrast, this Wordle was generated from the text itself, not from the wordlist.

This newer type of word cloud was created with Tagxedo.com

Three little pigs: pre-reading activity

top 25 lexical words from here

Jen Wagner's presentation with many suggestions and further links, including her contact email.

Just the Word & WORDLE…a match made in [lexical] heaven..

Click the title to read a blog entry that describes using these two tools in combination. For more on "Just the Word", click here.

Using wordles for

Jumbled Sentence activity