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. Then, choose **Row**, **Add Row**, **Add below** to add another row for your entry.


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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. ||
 * Natalie/ New Albany || This would be a great tool for revising word choice. Students would be able to very quickly see if they have overused any adjectives- a visual representation of which words should be replaced with more vivid choices. ||
 * Michelle/New Albany || This would be a great tool to teach persuasion through advertising. Today my students wrote about 2 items that they would be willing to get rid of at their own garage sale. They tried to persuade their audience to buy these items. Using WORDLE would let the words speak for themselves. ||
 * Tina/New Albany || Great tool to highlight the important concepts of any topic. We could create one with the students about our classroom and display it on our classroom portal. It could be an intriguing way to start a unit. Show them the wordle and then ask them to figure out what the main topic is. ||
 * Kerry/New Albany || I have used Wordle quite a bit. We started our //Outsiders// unit by putting Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," into a Wordle. I displayed it in my classroom from the beginning of the unit. Students began seeing it and commenting on it. As soon as we read the poem in S.E. Hinton's novel, the students almost simultaneously stated, "hey, that's his poem!" It was neat to see them figure out their environment is more than what the eyes see sometimes. ||
 * Amy/New Albany || I love Wordle! I was never a strong writer and would have loved this tool to help show how frequently I was using "empty words". I don't know if I will ever type a paper again without Wordle-ing it. ||
 * Sterling/New Albany || The two ways I would use Wordle would be to help brainstorm ideas and to help students build vocabulary word choices. This is a great program to kick start student creativity and making them aware of what they choose to write. ||
 * Elliott/New Albany || I could use it in my classroom to provide the "hook" for a topic or to spark a debate or discussion. In an acting class, monologues or scenes could be dumped into Wordle to find the key words in them. Then, the actors would have to figure out why the largest words (the ones used the most) are important in that monologue or scene and - breaking it down even further - why they are important to their character. In my post, I pondered about pasting the entire text of a play in Wordle. What if I'd taken the text of "Hairspray" and dumped that text in it? What words would have stood out? What discussions might this image of words have sparked? I think Wordle has many useful applications. ||