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Welcome to a post I always have fun writing. Last year I attempted finding ways to use Word Clouds (Wordle) in education. When I concluded writing that post I was at 108 possible ways. More than a... 
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There's a new way to teach using wordle. It involves actually withholding a bit of information and making students think a bit harder. What fun! If you are looking for a way to use word clouds in your classroom here is one idea. The post asks you to look at a list of quotations and at the word cloud (pictured above) and consider "which is more powerful."
Tanya Taylor's curator insight,
May 27, 2017 5:19 AM
Wordle is a tool for generating 'word clouds' from any text that you provide. The cloud allows words that appear frequently in the source text to take prominence within the 'cloud'. Wordle has a myriad of classroom applications and is extremely easy to use. It also allows users to change fonts, layouts and colour schemes and you can also manipulate your text to withhold certain words to challenge students to find the gaps in the wordle.
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Here is a slideshow that provides lots of ideas on how to use Wordle in your classroom.
Edmilson Simões's curator insight,
November 20, 2014 7:25 AM
It is an excellent tool to integrate literacy into other content areas.You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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March 6, 2013 3:33 PM
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Welcome to a post I always have fun writing. Last May I attempted finding ways to use Word Clouds (Wordle) in education. When I concluded writing that post I was at 108 possible ways. More than a ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Mike Gorman returns with 125 ways to use Word Clouds in your classroom. Although focused on Wordle any of the many tools available to create word clouds could be used. Gorman has taken the time to organize these ways into the following categories: * All Subjects * Science * Language Arts * Social Studies * Math * Health and PE and Consumer Sciences * Art and Music * Foreign Languages * Careers Below are two of the 125 suggestions. The first one is for science. * Create a simple food chain showing representing each population of animal by word size. In fact create a whole food web of an area or biome. Use advanced number feature. And this one is for social studies. * Using statistical information from a place such as CIA World Fact Book create word clouds that illustrate country statistics such as resources, ethnic groups, religions, languages, etc. You may wish to use advanced number feature to illustrate prominence of each.
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"I have long heard of Word Webbing, Words Diagrams, Word Art, but how about a Word Cloud? By now you may be either familiar with a Word Cloud, have googled the Weather Channel to get a better idea, or maybe have taken a look out your window to see if there really is such a thing. The concept of a Word Cloud maintains that “If a picture paints a thousand words, then what can a thousand words paint?” The answer of course is a Wordle. Yes, Wordles are amazing Word Clouds that can be created by all." A wealth of information about word clouds with a focus on Wordle with additional posts to come, covering 100 ways to use Word Clouds in your classroom, other word cloud generatorss and moving beyond word clouds.
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Wow...170 ideas on how to use word clouds in your classroom! This post was written with Wordle in mind and references a previous post that shares 12 Valuable Wordle Tips You Must Read.
The good news...this post is split into sections. What will you find? See the list below.
* All Subjects
* Science
* English Language Arts
* Math
* Health and Physical Education and Family and Consumer Science
* Art and Music
* Foreign Language
* Applied Arts
* Careers
This post provides many ideas on how you might us word clouds as a teacher as well as how your learners may use them.