As the year has gone on my students and I have used Wordle to create title pages, visualisations of essays, as a way to pick out the key words from text and to identify words we may be over using in our writing. As part of Teach42's 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger I put my RSS feed through Wordle and came up with this:
I was quite pleased to see that creative, flexible, future, change and education all rated highly. I found it interesting that 'teachers' rated higher than 'students', but then in reflection I think that's fair. More and more I find myself thinking about the role of teachers and working to support other teachers in their ICT journeys.
An interesting activity really and quite a revealing one about my focus recently.
Wordle - helping me make the connections ;)
4 comments:
I, too, recently discovered Wordle and love it!
Thanks for sharing your ideas for using it — to identify overused words in our writing and to highlight key words in text. I also "wordled" my blog—great fun and very insightful.
Thanks for the comment, Bonnie! I sometimes think we get too caught up in the 'prettiness' of Wordle and forget that it has more to offer us than that :)
So when you wordle your blog* are the biggest words the most used? If so I need to improve my vocabulary!
*never thought I'd use that phrase!
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