Sunday, April 11, 2010

Using Wordle in Classroom Lessons

April 12-18 is National Library Week. Show your appreciation to your library media specialist by creating a Wordle word cloud. Review the post I created earlier where I mentioned Wordle as a neat tool for the classroom. Here are some ideas for using Wordle in lesson activities from Jonathan Wylie.

Create a Wordle Gift: Input your favorite adjectives for your librarian, generate the word cloud, and add it to a greeting card, poster, calendar, or whatever else you choose. This can be a class gift with each student adding one or more words to a poster.

Other ideas for using Wordle include: historical document analysis, student profiles, compare and contrast activities, unit review and preview posters and more. Try some of these ideas in your lessons to give visualization to some of the concepts you are teaching.

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