I love wordle. The one at top of site is of all the text in my blog. A nice way to sum up what I have actually contributed (questionable) through this experience.
A little activity for the classroom - Can you make a sentence with the largest words from the wordle?
my attempt,
I REALLY THINK the DIGITAL WORLD, DIGITAL INFORMATION and TECHNOLOGY can improve the LEARNING and CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE for STUDENTS and TEACHERS alike.
( wordle says this is the gist of my blog, visually you can draw that meaning from the display, then I think it has done a good job of graphically displaying what I have been trying to express.)
I like the visual aspect of this tool, anything that gives an extra dimension to text, and therefore literacy, I think can only benefit students. Particularly those that are drawn to the visual as opposed to the written medium - wordle merges both and is a nice way of improving students multi-literacy skills.
Word sift, http://www.wordsift.com/ while not as impressive visually, does give the extra tool of an online thesaurus, so students can try and improve their vocab with words they have overused. Again same skills and lessons being taught just displayed in a more engaging, and layered way. We are just taking the lessons to where the kids are, and want to be.
Jenni - How clever!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great a sentence! I think if we all did it from all our blogs and shared the sentences we created - we would get barrow load of wisdom!
I love wordle too! I've been using it almost every time I write something to see whether what I intended as my main idea(s) are coming across. Like you said, it's very visual, I enjoyed playing around with customising the shape and the colours. It's also made me re-evaluate how much I use 'really' (maybe I should use wordsift, I could definitely use some more synonyms).
ReplyDeletetoo true Jo, did laugh that not quite the most common words, but quite significant words of my wordle was REALLY THINK. But I guess the purpose of our blogs was to express what we REALLY THINK....luckily it is not a literacy unit.
ReplyDelete