Love these ideas! I'll use create a class composite of positive @ not-so-positive character traits today in class.
Barbara
October 22, 2008 at 6:53 AM
Anonymous said...
I had my MBA students use Wordle as an ice breaker last week for the first day of class. They had had me for another class eight months previously. My question to them, was "What have you been doing since then?" Each student had to do a one minute presentation using Wordle as a visual aid with key words. They enjoyed and so did I!
While I've been thinking about group responses, I'm starting to see greater value in the use of this tool for individual responses to just about any question...
I make birthday (e) cards for people - google them, copy and paste the results into Word (strip some of the google stuff) and Wordle the results. Makes a really interesting personal image for someone and they spend ages figuring out how certain words appeared on their pics!
Great ideas, especially from the other commenter who uses Wordle to make personalized birthday cards. I just may have to try that one. And thanks to linking to my freelance writing blog.
Loved the idea about the online discussions-will use that with my post grad class who are looking at reflection and philosophy of practice. Thanks
October 25, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Anonymous said...
Great ideas Rodd! I will have to share this with our literacy consultants. Thanks.
October 29, 2008 at 9:07 AM
Anonymous said...
Thank you for the great ideas and the comments. I especially like the idea of pasting in a whole text and the greeting cards idea for use in the classroom. I've added this link to a webslides called "Ideas for using Wordle" I made on Diigo. http://slides.diigo.com/list/malloryburton/ideas-for-using-wordle Thanks again, Mallory
Excellent ideas and examples. I am adding this to our Diigo Wordle Bookmark Group. Thanks for sharing.
November 11, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Anonymous said...
I created a Wordle of key people and events we have been learning about in Canadian history. Students then had to support their opinion as to if they agreed with the Wordle or not. Did they agree with the names/events that were smaller or larger? Once they stated their opinion they needed to support it with details and facts to demonstrate their understanding of the material. The assessment needed a little bit of explaining up front but WOW what an excellent look at their learning.
Rarely does a product alone demonstrate one's depth of knowledge and understanding; the performance you've required of your students is, I think, exemplary!
November 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...
Thanks for these great ideas - I love wordle. Another great idea is to use it as a class poll. Simple example - each child types in their favourite colour into the text box - produces a wordle where the most popular 'colour' stands out - great for 'how do you feel today', 'favourite animal' 'what month is your birthday' etc. Cheers and thanks... Donna
and hold a forum on predictions (linking it to theoretical material on Colonial literature) before actually reading the story. It really worked!
April 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM
rebecca said...
My year two's have just used wordle to sort out all the time connectives they've found in three simple fairy tale books - and were surprised to find out that "and then" is not a common time phrase!
June 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM
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I work for an organization called Stand that used Wordle to visualize the written responses of youth at a forum we held, about the four questions in our survey.
With a team of five people, we typed all the answers into a google form and then created a word cloud for each question. The kids were really excited to see their own words, thoughts, and ideas up on a big projector screen. It also brought together two diverse groups of kids when they saw their common ideas, thoughts, etc.
November 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM
jacqskye said...
I absolutely love this... just found it today and have used it for my class. I have taken a paragraph from a certain page in their novel ie P63 and they have to find which page it is taken from using the context clues. They loved it and really enjoyed the activity. This is a real test of how well they know and comprehend the text. Thanks!!
I had students engage in a text rendering--selecting what they each considered to be the most important word, phrase, and sentence from an article--then I scribed their selections and Wordled the results. The next day, we were watching a TED talk, so I asked the students to listen for key words and phrases, jot those down using Etherpad, and then we were able to create an instant Wordle! It's really helped them think about the power of language (and image) in new ways.
You might wish to check out http://www.jenuinetech.com/guessthewordle and also http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/MoreThanWordles
I might have gone a bit overload on Wordles but see them as a great conversation starter.
Jen
April 17, 2010 at 7:13 AM
Anonymous said...
At our school in service this August we discussed our current successes with our writing initiative. I took this list and created a wordle then had it made into posters for each classroom teacher. They love it and it's a constant reminder of what we're doing right!
Love these ideas. We are using it in our tech masters cohort. We wanted to also suggest: antonyms and synonyms for words, teambuilding for team sports or classroom environment, or use it towards the beginning of the year when you are presenting your classroom expectations/rules.
I absolutely love your Shakespeare idea. It converts the language to a visual that students can understand. Some students do not enjoy Shakespeare, but this activity can get all students involved. Another suggestion can be that students enter the introductions of a paper and look at the frequency of words used.
October 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM
[Image] Wordle Wordle is a free 'word art' tool that crunches any chunk of text in the production of a visual representation of the content. The resulting graphic emphasizes the most common words by amplifying their size based on frequency. Originally designed to give pleasure, Wordle is being used in interesting ways to provide compelling summaries of political speeches, blog posts, twitter feeds, news articles and more, but there are additional educational uses worth considering.
"Top 20 Uses for Wordle"
31 Comments -
Love these ideas! I'll use create a class composite of positive @ not-so-positive character traits today in class.
Barbara
October 22, 2008 at 6:53 AM
I had my MBA students use Wordle as an ice breaker last week for the first day of class. They had had me for another class eight months previously. My question to them, was "What have you been doing since then?" Each student had to do a one minute presentation using Wordle as a visual aid with key words. They enjoyed and so did I!
October 22, 2008 at 7:02 AM
Hi Barbara and Delaney!
While I've been thinking about group responses, I'm starting to see greater value in the use of this tool for individual responses to just about any question...
Thanks for sharing!
October 22, 2008 at 7:09 AM
I make birthday (e) cards for people - google them, copy and paste the results into Word (strip some of the google stuff) and Wordle the results. Makes a really interesting personal image for someone and they spend ages figuring out how certain words appeared on their pics!
October 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Great ideas, especially from the other commenter who uses Wordle to make personalized birthday cards. I just may have to try that one. And thanks to linking to my freelance writing blog.
Michelle Rafter
WordCount
http://michellerafter.wordpress.com
October 23, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Loved the idea about the online discussions-will use that with my post grad class who are looking at reflection and philosophy of practice. Thanks
October 25, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Great ideas Rodd! I will have to share this with our literacy consultants. Thanks.
October 29, 2008 at 9:07 AM
Thank you for the great ideas and the comments. I especially like the idea of pasting in a whole text and the greeting cards idea for use in the classroom. I've added this link to a webslides called "Ideas for using Wordle" I made on Diigo. http://slides.diigo.com/list/malloryburton/ideas-for-using-wordle
Thanks again,
Mallory
November 1, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Nice post...
November 6, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Excellent ideas and examples. I am adding this to our Diigo Wordle Bookmark Group. Thanks for sharing.
November 11, 2008 at 9:06 PM
I created a Wordle of key people and events we have been learning about in Canadian history. Students then had to support their opinion as to if they agreed with the Wordle or not. Did they agree with the names/events that were smaller or larger? Once they stated their opinion they needed to support it with details and facts to demonstrate their understanding of the material. The assessment needed a little bit of explaining up front but WOW what an excellent look at their learning.
November 22, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Sherene,
That's a model task you've outlined!
Rarely does a product alone demonstrate one's depth of knowledge and understanding; the performance you've required of your students is, I think, exemplary!
November 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Thanks for these great ideas - I love wordle. Another great idea is to use it as a class poll. Simple example - each child types in their favourite colour into the text box - produces a wordle where the most popular 'colour' stands out - great for 'how do you feel today', 'favourite animal' 'what month is your birthday' etc. Cheers and thanks...
Donna
March 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Great ideas!
What I have done in a Literature class is create a Wordle for a short story (Conrad)
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/539804/The_Lagoon
and hold a forum on predictions (linking it to theoretical material on Colonial literature) before actually reading the story. It really worked!
April 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM
My year two's have just used wordle to sort out all the time connectives they've found in three simple fairy tale books - and were surprised to find out that "and then" is not a common time phrase!
June 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM
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June 15, 2009 at 4:33 AM
Dr. Delaney that is classic. I had to tell you that I was laughing after reading your comment.
Katie, great idea with the Birthday Cards. I'm going to go check them out.
Great article
October 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Even more uses by WordleUsers:
http://groups.google.com/group/wordleusers/browse_thread/thread/c87eb88e04996dbc?pli=1
November 4, 2009 at 6:27 AM
I work for an organization called Stand that used Wordle to visualize the written responses of youth at a forum we held, about the four questions in our survey.
With a team of five people, we typed all the answers into a google form and then created a word cloud for each question. The kids were really excited to see their own words, thoughts, and ideas up on a big projector screen. It also brought together two diverse groups of kids when they saw their common ideas, thoughts, etc.
November 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I absolutely love this... just found it today and have used it for my class. I have taken a paragraph from a certain page in their novel ie P63 and they have to find which page it is taken from using the context clues. They loved it and really enjoyed the activity. This is a real test of how well they know and comprehend the text. Thanks!!
November 24, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Sorry that should have read P63 of The BFG
November 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM
I had students engage in a text rendering--selecting what they each considered to be the most important word, phrase, and sentence from an article--then I scribed their selections and Wordled the results. The next day, we were watching a TED talk, so I asked the students to listen for key words and phrases, jot those down using Etherpad, and then we were able to create an instant Wordle! It's really helped them think about the power of language (and image) in new ways.
November 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM
The ideas keep coming... Great stuff!
In addition, there are a number of other posts linked to this one that may contain other ways to engage Wordle.
November 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Thinking of creating an 'embossed' Wordle? Check out Doug Peterson's post: http://dougpete.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/an-embossed-wordle/
February 5, 2010 at 4:16 AM
You might wish to check out http://www.jenuinetech.com/guessthewordle and also
http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/MoreThanWordles
I might have gone a bit overload on Wordles but see them as a great conversation starter.
Jen
April 17, 2010 at 7:13 AM
At our school in service this August we discussed our current successes with our writing initiative. I took this list and created a wordle then had it made into posters for each classroom teacher. They love it and it's a constant reminder of what we're doing right!
October 12, 2010 at 3:08 AM
Thanks Rob i will surely have to do the same tactic when i am doing this.
cheers!
December 14, 2010 at 4:31 AM
Rob, you are real genius!
February 27, 2011 at 5:36 PM
What a neat tool. Thanks for the share Rodd. I know my son will get a kick out of this.
May 13, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Love these ideas. We are using it in our tech masters cohort. We wanted to also suggest: antonyms and synonyms for words, teambuilding for team sports or classroom environment, or use it towards the beginning of the year when you are presenting your classroom expectations/rules.
October 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM
I absolutely love your Shakespeare idea. It converts the language to a visual that students can understand. Some students do not enjoy Shakespeare, but this activity can get all students involved. Another suggestion can be that students enter the introductions of a paper and look at the frequency of words used.
October 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM