I ran the text from our newsletter through wordle. It’s fantastic – and quite beautiful! I must show this to our literacy coordinator! I can see lots of applications in the classroom…
*EDIT* I just ran our recent OFSTED Report through Wordle – it’s so interesting!
Lovely to see how “students” is a large word, whereas “teachers” is tiny! Also, teaching is small, but learners is in bold! I do love Wordle. How might you use it in the classroom?
It would be very helpfull when introducing a new text. The kids can discuss what they think the text will be about – and learn the key vocabulary at the same time. It also might be fun to run their own work through Wordle as part of the plenary.
How do you use it, Sue?
The literacy coordinator loved it – and is going to use it for the introduction to her obeserved literacy lesson this afternoon…
I love that idea – must try that! So far I’ve mostly used it for personal reasons (eg putting the text of Samson’s book through it for curiosity and printing out the results – he hasn’t put it on the wall yet though!) I showed one pupil at school when we couldn’t access voki, and we put one of his pieces of work through it, and put the results on my school blog, but didn’t really do any analysis. For the Year of St Paul, which we will be marking next year, I am thinking of putting up the letters of St Paul as a display so pupils can work out what was most important to him in each letter. I look forward to getting ideas from others! Bring them on!
I’ve never seen this before and I love it! I put my blog RSS feed through it and was interested to see the results. It shows that I’m not talking about the students enough!
Thanks for your comment, Ant. Yes – it is addictive!
Try running your schools OFSTED though it – very interesting!