Unit+2+-+Wordle+Ideas

After you have experienced creating a WORDLE, post a comment about anything you have observed about Wordle or your ideas for how you might use it instructionally. See the examples provided below. When you are ready to post your thoughts about Wordle, remember to click on the **EDIT **tab at the top right, then click in the next available row in the table to type your name and your one sentence idea or thought about Wordle.  If all the rows have been used, click in the last row and then click on the table icon (Pop up menu). Then, choose **Row**, **Add Row**, **Add below** to add another row for your entry.

Cindi Molk.|| I've never seen Wordle before and I think students would love it! I would have each student choose a Math vocabulary word and write a descriptive paragraph on that vocabulary word. Then, I would have each student create a Wordle. I would then create a class book of Math Wordles. It is a neat activity for all subjects! Wordles can be used in many different ways. Imagination is unleashed for students!||
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 * ===**Participant Name** === || ===**Ideas about using a Web 2.0 Technology like Wordle** === ||
 * 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. ||
 * 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? ||
 * Tina/Coventry || This reminds me of something I used to do to my locker in high school. I'd cut words out of magazines to make a collage for the inside of my locker. Those collages spoke volumes about me. This is a neat way to creatively present thoughts. ||
 * Lori Vandeborne || It might be interesting for students to use Wordle to compile the words they use most often in extended response questions and then discuss how they could make better vocabulary choices using a thesaurus to find synonyms for those words. ||
 * Ellen J. || I plan to use WORDLE to demonstrate to my students how often they use words like AND, THEN, SO, ETC... in their paragraph writing. I just spent an hour typing in their paragraphs. Tomorrow we will "WORDLE" them to see the results. I am sure that the students will enjoy seeing them. ||
 * Ellen J. || I am thinking that I can use WORDLE to introduce parts of speech later on in the year. I will type "noun" several times, then I will have the students create a list of common nouns. When we wordle it, they will have a cool poster to remind them of examples of a noun. ||
 * Ellen J. || Figured out how to "save" a WORDLE! Of course you techy people probably already know... I just took a screen shot using my Notebook program. Now my kids wordles are ready for tomorrow! No wasted down time during class. Of course it is 7:15 p.m. and I have been working on this since about 4:30! ||
 * Ryan Miller || I'm sure by using Wordle that I can select a chunk of reading text and then analyze it. I could also work backwards with a word cloud by discussing how a word cloud represents the piece of text we are looking at. ||
 * Tyler Turner || Often times important text, such as scientific journals can be long and boring. By entering that text into a wordle students can pull out key terms that they can do more research on to better understand the important point of report. ||
 * Bo Walter || I think we'll use wordle during our PBL project. That would be another way to include fun technology and help students to think creatively. I think we might use WORDLE as a potential assessment tool. We could enter the question numbers of all the test questions that they missed on a test. Then look at the wordle to assess exactly which standards to work on. ||
 * Amy long || one of my students beat me to a Wordle at the beginning of the year. He put different science topics in a Wordle, copied it off and put that as his cover of his science bind. I planned to create one with my classes at the beginning of the year to show kids how many different areas science in our grade. It could be used as a vocabulary review by having the student give the definition and then type the word in Wordle when they get the word correct. They will create a Wordle and have it to study from. ||
 * Mary Wormley || I am going to have my students do Wordles when we do our PBL project over the different celebrations/holidays in countries located in the Eastern Hemisphere. ||
 * Shannon Kuhlman || I researched some math poems to try on Wordle. I think I could have students create a poem and then Wordle it to bring it to life! ||