Week+2+-+Wordle+Ideas

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code media type="custom" key="6205087" width="140" height="140" YES! It worked! I am planning on having a class blog again next year with my students. At the start of my Pythagorean Theorem unit, the students will write everyt hing they knew about the Pythagorean Theorem on the class blog, of which we turn all their comments into a wordle. At the end, I will have them do the same thing, and I will create another wordle. We will then compare the two wordles. I would hope that the things emphasized in the unit would be LARGE. || media type="custom" key="6217853"
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 * Donna Pepper || I like the way words that I have used more than once appear larger since it helps me get a visual of the "big ideas" in my writing. ||
 * Lori Miller || media type="custom" key="6330667"I think that this would be a great tool for students to see overuse of words for assignments. I also think that this would be an awesome vocabulary tool. They could use the wordle to pick words and define, or a plethera of other activities regarding vocabulary. This would also be a creative way to make a word wall. This would also be a great way to practice writing sentences. ||
 * Cheryl Ward || Paste in the content of a famous speech and see if students know the speech, study the words used most frequently, is that why the speech was famous? ||
 * Teresa Moon || At the end of the unit have students type in their own set of words (the ones that are more important are typed more often). These can be printed and posted in the classroom. It is interesting to see how students think about the vocabulary. ||
 * Steve Phelps || I thought the example that David Warlick shared at the orientation was pretty cool. Here is my attempt at a wordle for the Pythagorean Theorem...lets see if the widget will work!
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media type="custom" key="6217891" || media type="custom" key="6236295"media type="custom" key="6236337"Here are a couple a wordles that my students did this morning! || I am glad the video was helpful. The one thing I did not do enough of this year was using screencasts. Jing is so simple to use, and the free version does everything I need it to do. || media type="custom" key="6275697" media type="custom" key="6276321"
 * Teresa Moon || After watching Steve's video (above), I created a screencast about how to make a wordle and post it on the wiki. I uploaded my screencast to the home page of my class wiki (10th grade geometry). They watched the screencast, created a wordle about circles, and used the widget to upload their wordle! It was awesome!! They loved it too. The great thing is that it only took about 15-20 minutes for them to learn and complete the entire assignment! This will be easily used throughout the year next year:)
 * Matt Freeman || It took me some time to figure out that I need to download java to get this to work, but FINALLY, it works and what a great result. I really appreciate the visual that this program creates with text. I pasted our building wide expectations into wordle and thought it would be a great way to start discussion with students about what we think is important in and around our building. Very exciting tool... ||
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 * John Snyder || media type="custom" key="6253463"This is a great tool, I have my students every year create a Bio-poem and this would give them a rea lly neat and creative way to do that. ||
 * Cherie Dixon || media type="custom" key="6273501"media type="custom" key="6273559"I love Wordle. I have used it to spark discussion at the beginning of a new unit. I have also used it as a word bank for students to use to respond to an extended response question (really helpful for my inclusion students). It is awesome for copying and pasting historical documents to see what words the author uses most. The Gettysburg Address was perfect for Memorial Day of course. ||
 * Shawn Neeley || This is definitely a great tool that could easily be implemented into my language arts classroom. Students could read a WORDLE that was created using types of figurative language and examples of each. They could then figure out each type of figurative language used. Better yet, they could create one collaboratively with a partner and have other students figure them out as an assessment tool!

Images created at http://www.wordle.net || Everts Middle School || Wordles are really neat! I like the idea of using it as a way to build background and see what students know. Then, revisit after the unit.
 * Vonda Barnhart || I think I could use a wordle at the beginning of a lesson whe n I have the students "Tell me everything you know about . . . .". It would be neat for the students to see a wordle of their knowledge before mastering a concept and again after mastering the concept. ||
 * Cynthia Brown || This is a great way to get kids to "play" with language. It lets them explore with ease and without boundaries.media type="custom" key="6280755" ||
 * Tricia Green || I believe this would be a great way for me to use with my staff to generate ideas when trying to implement somethin g new or come up with ways to make something better......a great way to brainstorm.media type="custom" key="6281289" ||
 * Brooke Paxton

media type="custom" key="6286441" || Everts Middle School || My Wordle on Voice Threads............. media type="custom" key="6284575" align="center"
 * Lynda McLaughlin

I plan to use these next year in Math class. We can create Wordles for our "I Can" statements that we use in class. Students can tell what they will be learning or have learned through the use of Wordles! || Wilmington Middle School || Ok, this wiki widget thing is amazing and just unbelievable! And Steve's video! How do you do that? So much to learn! I am going to try doing this wiki widget and have my students do it a wordle about a career that they have been researching. They will share their research with classmates at the end of the week and maybe some of them can have a wordle to share. I'll be back with my wordle...I used a text that I was working on earlier tonight, my new IPDP and the section about anticipated outcomes. Interesting! media type="custom" key="6286923" I just saw a wordle on a Honda commercial! This technology is EVERYWHERE! My husband is telling me that I need to calm down! Here's my other wordle from one of my forum posts - media type="custom" key="6290019" VERY COOL STUFF! || I created the video with Jing (a free screen capturing software). It very easy to use. I can create a jing movie showing how to create a jing move if you want. I'D LOVE IT! THANKS! ||
 * Karen Long
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Everts Middle School || Great tool for students to use to brainstorm for prior knowledge about a subject or topic. Gives them an interactive activity that they can work with other than just writing in a KWL chart or other tool. Sorry, my wordle is not a cut and paste of my response. Got creative media type="custom" key="6295517" ||
 * Kevin Fox
 * Halle Minney- Huntington High School || I think wordle would be a great way to use vocabulary words or introduce main objectives in class, and the freedom to personalize your wordle will make it fun to use!
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 * Bev Riley - Everts Middle School || What a great tool to use to address the NETS-S for creativity. At the beginning of school, the students could write a short paragraph about themselves. Then, the teacher could post those on a bulletin board with each student's picture.

media type="custom" key="6297825" || Huntington High School || I'm sure that many students would have fun with Wordle. It looks a little crazy to me. I guess I am too much of a concrete, sequential learner. || Chaney High School YCSD || I think that this is a great activity for vocabulary development in any content area. It is fun to do and you are able to personalize it (especially for those students with any artistic talents - they would love it.) || Chaney High School || I love Wordle! What a fun way for kids to write poetry or make covers for their memoirs or children's books. || media type="custom" key="6297465" || Chaney High School || At first I didn't think I could use it for my classes, but then I started playing around with it and Ideas of ways I can use Wordle's started popping up. I made one for the periodic table, and famous scientists. I can see the students using it for their lab reports. I think the kids would enjoy doing them. || Everts Middle School || Here is my wordle about Collaborating on Technology Standards... media type="custom" key="6302291"I really enjoyed using this technology! Thanks goes to my teammate for helping with the Widget! I can't wait to use this in class. I feel like Wordles could be used to determine prior knowledge before a unit or lesson to pick the student's brains. After the unit or lesson, create a new Wordle, and then the class could see what differences that the two Wordles have, and visually see what new things they have learned. || Bell-Herron Middle School || I could use Wordle for vocabulary in my language arts class. Students could put a vocabulary word in Wordle and then work collaboratively to add synonyms or antonyms around the vocab word. || Bell-Herron Middle School || Wordle is an interesting tool for people to share thoughts, post ideas, be creative, identify what is important in their life at the time. This could be a valuable communication tool which provokes thought on the writer's and reader's part. In Language Arts, this could lead to classroom discussion in critical thinking or use a wordle for defining the writer's purpose, tone, mood, etc. In math, I could see a wordle used as gathering student's perception on a concept or skill or thinking out side the box!
 * Keith Stevenson
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 * Marilyn Mastronarde
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 * Valarie Rapp Indian Lake || I really enjoy Wordle! I had a lot of fun trying different words or excerpts. I thought this might be nice for kids that struggle to find a main idea in what they are reading. Take the passage and plug it in and Wordle will illustrate key words. For this one I copied a summary for one of the unit books we read.
 * Tim Bakos
 * Lisa Powers
 * Stacey Linhart
 * Pam Stoller

|| Everts Middle School || Wordle would be great as a way for students to review concepts at the end of the 9 weeks. It really pulls out the main concepts and highlights those words. I created a Wordle from one of my postings about Essential Questions for Planning with Technology. Here it is: media type="custom" key="6308901" width="168" height="168" align="left" || Wilmington Rodger O'Borror Middle School || I just finished a poetry unit with my seventh graders and students could create a wordle as a concrete poem. They could also create a wordle as they are brainstorming ideas and attributes to describe themselves.
 * Kay-Indian Lake || Wordle is a great tool! I think using this as a vocabulary tool is a wonderful idea. Students would be so receptive to look for synonyms and antonyms in LA class. I think this would be a great way for visual learners to further remember key words. ||
 * Angela Willyerd
 * Donald Kotnik Huntington High School || Wordle could be used in my speech class in a couple of different ways. First, students could create a wordle using a draft of their speech. This would serve as a great visual for the class to see. It would highlight words and topics used most frequently throughout the student's speech. Secondly, wordle could be used to see what phrases and words students are repeating too much throughou their speeches. ||
 * Jeri Earley

media type="custom" key="6315535" || Huntington HS || The Wordle would be a great way to introduce new concepts, such as: media type="custom" key="6319279" || Wilmington Middle || What about using wordles to analyze advertising messages or political messages? You could take text from a variety of sources, both clearly and subtly-biased, to examine what words appear most often in relation to more objective sources such as encyclopedias. I love how simple these are. I think a first grader could make one. Also, there is more on the site to discover if students are curious. It would be interesting to organize this chart according to the verbs used in Bloom's Taxonomy. Have we addressed all the higher levels of thinking with our ideas? Here is a wordle of our school's technology vision brainstorming: media type="custom" key="6324855" ||  ||   || EPMS || I created a Wordle for the science concept of volcanoes. I liked the way the important words were printed, the different color and font are eye catching. I use a lot of concept mapping and foldables in some lessons. The students could increase their vocabulary and spelling through the use of Wordle. I think they would find this concept very fun and as easy as it seems, they still have to come up with the list of words for their concept word and it should help them recall every concept that is tied into the main one. media type="custom" key="6490571" ||  ||   || Chaney High School || I can see how students could really get into this idea....it could be used for many types of activities especially for reflection media type="custom" key="6319439" ||  ||
 * Tim Curtis
 * Nicole Friend
 * Marsha Henry
 * Angela Dooley
 * Amanda Gillespie Hartford Middle School || media type="custom" key="6321997"I made a wordle using my technology integration post, which had to do with RoboPro. As a science teacher, I utilize concept mapping quite a bit, and I also teach food webs and food chains. I see Wordle as another way to get at these same concepts. I love how the more frequently used words are bigger, thus visually illustrating which words are used more. If I have students put in various food chains, then what they would see the words representing producers would be very large, and the words representing tertiary consumers would be rather small. I also Iike the potential to use this for research papers. If you are trying to get your students to avoid using and and but so much, they can cut and paste their research paper into a wordle...and viola! If and and but are larger, comparatively, then they have used those words too often.

I enjoyed how others used a variety of colors and fonts, and I believe the variation in size of the words makes the greatest impact. As some have suggested, I do plan to use this as a vocabulary word tool. It's much more visually appealing than putting word lists on a chalkboard.

On a personal note, wordle could be used when trying to decide on baby names or vacation spots. Have parties involved shoot you an email of their preference, cut and paste those emails into a wordle and see which options pop out. ||  || media type="custom" key="6327359" ||   || Wilmington Middle School || To begin our look at the power of words of persuasion in speeches we looked at the familiar speech my MLK – I Have a Dream.I had the student predict what words would be the most important.Then I showed the students a wordle of the speech.Students were amazed to see that the powerful words were FREEDOM and WE. We repeated a Wordle activity after looking at Paul Revere from different sources.Groups wrote Sum-Up paragraphs and then put them into wordle form.It only strengthened the argument of different sources when the students saw how different their Paul Revere wordles appeared. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || At the start of my Slope unit, the students will write everything they knew about slope, of which we turn all their comments into a wordle. At the end, I will have them do the same thing, and I will create another wordle. Using a venn diagram we will then compare and contrast the two wordles. I would hope that the things emphasized in the unit would be LARGE. ||  || School || I enjoyed working in wordle. I think my literature students would enjoy it as well. It is easy to use and could be incorporated into many lessons. ||  || Indian Lake MS || I enjoyed Wordle. I think my students would really be able to put together a vocabulary project and see what words were really important. This looks cool and will really make assignments more interesting they could also add pictures. ||  || East Palestine Coach || I found in this particular case that I liked all the words in one color because the words I felt were most important stood out more. It could be used to learn parts of speech. . .i.e.pick a topic (apple) and the use words that describe apple. ||  ||
 * Jeff Gess || I thought that Wordle was very confusing. I believe that Wordle could be more effective if there were a way to search for different Wordles on various topics.
 * Tammy Sexton
 * Erika Eley I think this is a great tool to introduce a book or main idea in LA, and to discuss what stands out. It could possibly be used for a quick pre-assessment into comparing/ contrasting words, then research their meanings. I think it would certainly be a very interesting and unforgettable format for students to use. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Madonna/Chaney || I Keep wondering about the cost for an entire staff or who ever plans on using it. ||  ||
 * Cynthia Hopkins || media type="custom" key="6330791"In Algebra Class, I could see a wordle used as gathering student's perception on a concept or skill. At the end of the lesson have students type in their own set of words (the ones that are more important are typed more often). These can be printed and posted in the classroom. It is interesting to see how students think about the math vocabulary.
 * Phoua Alayamini ||  ||   ||
 * Andrea Ramsey || media type="custom" key="6331113"There are a plethora of uses for this application. I believe that students will be able to analyze text in artistic and interesting ways and make comparisons about it as well as get excited about seeing their own expressions in colors and sizes that emphasize what they have said. It would also be interesting to have students illustrate the wordles using visual art or some other forms of physical expression including music. ||  ||
 * Tracie Waldron || Having fun with wordles, widgets, jing . .. .my tech vocabulary is increasing! I think our students will be equally excited. I liked the idea suggested about using wordle for career exploration. Students could use words that describe the career. media type="custom" key="6334239"Also, I think my son (5th grade) might have fun reviewing spelling words with wordle. ||  ||
 * Teri Rauch/East Palestine Middle
 * Carmella Johnson || I love wordles....media type="custom" key="6360023" ||  ||
 * Britnie
 * Jared Van Kirk EPMS || media type="custom" key="6399215"I really enjoyed using Wordle and hope to continue to find different uses for it for staff and students. ||  ||
 * Kathy Young