Week+2+-+Wordle+Ideas

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media type="custom" key="9861219" Here is the link to the wordle  || media type="custom" key="9861279" Here is the link:  || [] || Buckeye || I like the idea of using a wordle when introducing a new topic or era in history and ask the kids to create a wordle so I can see what their experience is on that particular subject, and or what they believe to be connected to the subject. || http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3804270/Robert_Frost //I use this poem at the beginning of the year as a challenge for the students to decide which they want to take in the class and in life.// code a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3804270/Robert_Frost" title="Wordle: Robert Frost"> code ||  || crashing my computer - maybe its too much input for my older system. I took my comment from the discussion and put it into the site on another computer and got the coolest wordle image - Students Use Technology were the biggest words and they sat in amongst the other words just in that order. Needless to say I was excited. || between how they see or read something the first time and understanding the same information when it is phrased in a slightly different way. I often hear " It was not stated the same way you explained it". This might help students to understand that there are key words/concepts that link a topic. For example. If I were to have students search for basic sites about mitosis and then compare the information they would see that certain words show up in all the pages because they are the important ones. || great topics for discussion. I created a wordle from the text of a poem ("Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant), but I could not figure out how to post it here! If I figure it out or R. helps me, I'll insert it here later. The uses for this are numerous- vocabulary, concept review, etc. So many learners are visual(me)-this is a great way to reach them. Very exciting! || Coy Buckeye Local- I think Wordle is a great way to open a lesson. I think anytime to assist visual learning you should take advantage of it. It could be a means to begin classroom discussions.
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 * ===**Participant Name** === || ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Ideas about using a Web 2.0 Technology like Wordle** === ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Donna Pepper || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cheryl Ward || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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. ||
 * Jill/Firestone || This would be great as a review exercise or as an introduction to a unit. It could be used as a spring board for discussion. It is also very appealing to visual learners. ||
 * Kelsi/Claymont || I used to do an activity called "Word Sort" where students grouped words at the beginning of a unit. I can see using this it in its place. Also great for a powerful message about scientific ethics or safety in the science lab. ||
 * Courtney/Claymont || In the beginning of the year, I have students do a "BioPoem" about themselves: their interests, hobbies, etc. I think this would be a great way to use technology to improve their poems. In addition, using this in the beginning of a lesson to start off would be another way I would like to use Wordle. ||
 * Teresa Moon || Here is the wordle I created from Ellet High School's team vision:
 * Teresa Moon || Here is a wordle for Firestone High School's Team Vision:
 * Chris/Firestone || I think the students would enjoy creating this as a review. I also see it as a slide, I could add to my powerpoints to introduce the chapter. Perhaps it could be used as a bell work activity where the student would pick a world and discuss it based on their reading or notes and then discussing a real-world application.
 * RuthCambridge || I would like to use wordle by having a class of students list postive attributes about themselves. Also create a wordle listing various job skills. and post the results around the school ||
 * Heather/Claymont || I would use this to introduce a chapter or again for review. I would like to also have my class chose one word from my wordle and create a wordle of their own for that one word - a way to expand on a word or definition. ||
 * Julie/Ellet || Brain storming jumped into my mind when I first saw this. It could be used as an introduction to a unit. ||
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 * David/Firestone || I really like Wordle and could see using this for the students to create their own poems or short stories or even using it in their autobiography section. I truly believe the students will love the freedom and creativity they will have and the expression they will have in using this.
 * Ron/Buckeye Local || One thing that I get so often as a math teacher is questions about when they will ever have to use this stuff in the real world, so an idea that I have come up with is to have my students research job descriptions and copy and paste them into a wordle and subsequently take the Math Standards and copy and paste them into a wordls and have them compare the results to see how much overlap there is. ||
 * Emily/Ellet || I might have my students write essays at the beginning of the year about how they feel about language arts class, what its purpose is, etc. and see what words are most prominent in their wordles. I would also like to use it for when they write essays/stories/poems or read other people's writing. We could use it as a way to discuss theme/tone/mood depending on what words are the biggest. I liked the idea above of using it as a brainstorming tool. Often my students have a hard time writing poetry so I have them start out with observation paragraphs which they then convert to poem form. They could paste the observation paragraphs in wordle and then use the words that appear as inspiration for their poem. ||
 * Fred/Akron Public || What a great way for students to see what they were focusing on or maybe what needs to be edited. A visual abstract of a book/paper/article could help to focus discussions. ||
 * Gina L./Ellet || I really like the idea of using a wordle as a unit summary. I could give them one with the key words from a unit we are going to cover at the beginning to see prior knowledge and then give them the same one at the end of the unit as a review. Here is a link to the wordle I created from one of my earlier discussion posts
 * Jennifer B./Firestone || I love wordle. I have created my own and saved it in the gallery - Jennifer Beaven, students use technology (I think). However, I have had some trouble with the site
 * Walt / Ellet || In terms of the building as a whole, mission, vision, SIP and OIP objectives are my first thoughts. ||
 * Chaleen Tidrick/Cambridge High School || I would use wordle to help students compare websites or text when we start a unit, or even partially into a unit. I have noticed that students have a difficult time adapting
 * JanaMcConkey/Cambridge High School || Wordle would be an eye-opening way to show students the importance of repetion in prose and poetry. Theme and symbolism would also be
 * Cindy Straus/Buckeye || I see Wordle as my vocabulary extender. In the past I have made use of the practice test for each unit in Wordskills or Vocabulary Workshop. The students use this practice as a study guide, but taking the words that they have difficulty with and creating their own wordle with them could be their own creative way to begin utilizing the new word. ||

Jenny/Firestone I would use the wordle for geometry theorems so that students can see the major relationships described in the theorem.

Dan Oswald cambridge I would really like to draw some comparisons from famous speeches from history Kings Ihave a dream Kennedy's Ask not what you country can do speech and just see how our dialogue has changed over time then discuss how it may change in the future

Jackie Harkness/Ellet Here is my Wordle that I created from my posting on 21st Skills []. I think this would be a great intro activity to a new topic. I liked the way I could change the number of words. By decreasing the number, I got more relevent words and excluded the little meaningless words.

JEFF/ BUCKEYE LOCAL: I can see this as having potential when you want to introduce a new concept, topic, or unit Megan Lantz/Ellet I think I would like to use the wordle for vocabulary with each unit that I teach in geometry. Here is the link to my wordle: []