Make Your Own Wordle Style Games

 

Richard Byrne always has some great tech  articles.  In this article he has a video that shows how you or your students could make Wordle style games.  Might be great for a vocabulary list for Science or maybe in your Spanish class.  To see the article click here.

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Make Your Own Wordle

You know what a Wordle is don't you?  Would you like to make your own and then share the link with your class to try?  Maybe it might be a word or term that might come up in the next chapter or for review or maybe just vocab.  You might be want to do this in your French or Spanish class.  To see how to make your own just click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.     If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Word Clouds

 

Yesterday I posted about "3 participation strategies for live video instruction".  One of the ideas is using Word Clouds.  I strongly suggest using Word Art.  I have posted in the past about Word Clouds.  Click here to see the previous posts.   To use Word Art click here.

Word Clouds by Tagul

There are many Word Cloud sites such as Wordle, TagCrowd, Wispy (based on Twitter or Facebook feeds), ABCya  (for kids), Word Cloud by Jason Davies, HTML5 Word Cloud, and finally Semantic Word Cloud. Thanks Nathan Hall.  I tried Tagul the other day and what I find great about it is that you can put the word you want into a picture/clip art.  They have some stock clip art (hearts, stars, etc.) but they allow you to add clip art.  I wanted to put all of the last names of  my sons hockey team in a cloud that was a hockey player.  I was able to do that.  When I was done I went to the print button and then before printing I screen shot it and put it in paint.  I then cropped it and put it in word and was able to put a nice title and a few other things around it.  To see the website click here.

Word Cloud

Hopefully you have got yourself back into the swing of things after the March Break.  To help you here is something you might use in your class.  The above are examples of word clouds.  I posted previously about wordle, see November 22, 2012 by clicking here.  Tagxedo is another word cloud site that allows you to pick outlines to place your words in or to frame with (see above). To see their site click here. Some examples used in  a foods class are shown below.

Here is an example that I made using a list of award winning books we have in our school library.

Some other ways that are used in class are (thanks educatorstechnology.com):

Use word cloud tools to brain storm a topic or create a discussion either inside the class or online
Use them to teach vocabulary
Use them in reading activities to promote comprehension
Students can use them to feature important ideas from a  discussion or a video content
The entire class can use word clouds to react to a certain topic
Have students create word clouds that generate understanding of a concept, standards or vocabulary word.
Illustrate classroom thoughts or views using a word cloud to survey students.
Create a class word cloud that highlights class expectation
Post students first names to create a class or group word cloud
Bio for Students as an Introduction to Wordle/Tagxedo-"All About Me"
Create a marketable product to present and sell to the general market.
Create Job Descriptions/Responsibilities for Career Pathways
Vocabulary Words from their core subjects
Introduction to Resume and Job Interviewing Skills