Wordle

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Wordle is a graphical representation of the most frequently used words from a passage. Users can also insert words to create their own original word clouds. Using wordle allows students to use creativity and critical thinking skills, especially when using it to make predictions and identify main ideas. (Both skills support Marzano's Instructional Strategies; Integrating Technology with Marzano's Strategies)

 __**Why aren't numbers showing up?**__ By default, Wordle strips numbers from the text before drawing. See the “Language” menu to change that setting.  The size of a word in the visualization is proportional to the number of times the word appears in the input text. So, for example, if you type  > apple banana banana grape grape grape into the create page's text field, you'll see that banana's font size is twice apple's, and grape's font size is 3/2 that of banana's. __**Can I keep some words together? Can I visualize two-word phrases?**__ Yes! You can use either the Unicode "non-breaking space" character or the tilde character ~ between words that go together. The tilde will be converted to a space when drawing the words, and the words will be treated as a single word. See [].
 * __How do I make one word bigger than another?__**

__**What can my students create with WORDLE?**__
 * Students can create a synonym/antonym word cloud
 * Use characterstics for a famous American and create a word cloud that describe that person and their accomplishments
 * Describe a character from a story
 * List the characters from a story
 * Describe a region during a unit of study during social studies
 * Review a historical document
 * The teacher can create a wordle to activate students' prior knowledge when introducing a new concept
 * As a pre-reading activity, give students a non fiction wordle and have them generate an appropriate title or heading. Then they can read the article and evaluate their choice.
 * Create a descriptive wordle for a graphic (I feel the opportuity for a Discovery Education streaming keyword search lesson for an image coming on!)
 * Have students create a wordle as a pre-assessment and another as a post- assessment. Students can compare the two for self-reflection.
 * For more ideas, visit the following resources:
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 * 38 Interesting ways for Students to Use Wordle (video)

__**Where can my students find Wordle?**__
 * There is a link to the wordle website on the Student tab of the Birdneck School website. Once students access our school website, they will use the STUDENT tab, then scroll towards the bottom and click the link for Internet Safety and Web 2.0 tools. Find the link for wordle and click on the green URL address.

For more information, you can contact Mrs. Hingerty. She is available and happy to support you and your students' learning using the technolgoy tool, Wordle.