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The above image is a Wordle of a research paper I wrote for my Special Education and the General Classroom Teacher class. To create this Wordle, I simply copied and pasted my paper on to the website, and then the website generated an image. I was able to modify the font, color, and design of the image untill it became what you see here. Not only does wordles look impressive, they can also be a useful tool in the classroom.
Students can use Wordle to help them revise their writing. They can copy papers, stories, paragraphs, etc, on to the Wordle website and then have a word image generated for them. Since the words that are displayed the largest on the Wordle have been used the most in the given text, students can see what words they are using the most in their text. Do they use the word “the” too many times? Is “he”, “she”, or “it” written too often? Wordle can help students identify this!
Wordle could also be used as a form of art. Thoughts, ideas, and opinions can be presented through words by using Wordle. For me, sometimes my thoughts become trapped inside my head because I cannot come up with the correct sentences or sentence structure to fully communicate my meaning. By using Wordle, I could get out the words that I want to say and let their font size speak for their importanct.
I googled Wordle use in education, and these are some other uses I discovered for using Wordle (Technology In Education Know-How):
- Students can use it to analyze news articles. (What is the article about? What is the gist of the article? Check out this assignment!)
- Field trip reviews! (Have students write a list of what they see, notice, discover. Generate all the students’ lists into a Wordle. Instant ‘What’s important list’ from the trip!)
- Find out what is important to your school. (Do a wordle from your school newspaper, mission statement, articles written by school staff, etc.)
Here’s a Wordle of this blog post!
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