Week+2+-+Wordle+Ideas

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After, someone puts the words up on the board and we can generally see the idea of the text without having to spend to much time reading word for word. This works well as a review of a concept, etc. Wouldn't this be great on the first day of school to have students in the class create a wordle to represent the expectations of the class? || Pythagorean Theorem www.wordle.net Central Limit Theorem www.wordle.net || || || My wordle at [|www.wordle.net] || Teacher-ETT || Wordle is a great tool! Similar to what Cheryl mentioned above, I might use wordle to create a list of words which represented a visual artist (or famous person) & see if the students could determine who the artist was based on the words rather than viewing their artwork. media type="custom" key="9846467" width="54" height="54" align="left" (It's tiny! Click on the image to link to a larger view.) || ||
 * ===**Participant Name** === || ===**Ideas about using a Web 2.0 Technology like Wordle** === ||
 * Donna Pepper || 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. ||
 * Cheryl Ward || 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. ||
 * Nicole/Woodward || I like the way it shows the words that are repeated. I really like the idea of pasting in a passage and seeing if the students are able to identify the time period we are covering. ||
 * Jeanette/Rogers || This reminds me of an activity that I do with my students when we are reading an article in class. The students are asked to browse the text and then highlight words that hop out at them with in the text.
 * Steve/The MIGHTY SECTION 3 || [[image:2011-06-21_1855.png width="400" height="195"]]
 * Jeff/Clay Administrator || As an administrator I cannot use this in any application that I can think of right now. I see use in our art department or our humanities or foreign language instruction. It is certainly a creative way to express thoughts. ||
 * Jeff/Clay Adminstrator || Example of my Woodle
 * Steve B/The Administrator || Woodle is differnt. I am not familiar nor comfortable with this type of expression of thought. I don't see myself using this type of tool, but it is interesting. Here is my example of Woodle.
 * Sherry/Clay-Teacher || I think wordle is a fun tool that students might get a kick out if when working with a lot of the science terms that we use.
 * Rene'/Rogers
 * Mike / Cardinal Stritch Technology Director || This could be used to provide lists of web tools for students. This could be used to provide key marketing ideas. Steve this would be great for a poster advertising Career Tech classes.
 * Bridget/Rogers - English Teacher || Love this! I am not the most tech person in the world but I really see this as something my kids could do in leu of a book report or article summary. I do not mean to replace these skills but a Wordle would surely draw in more of my reluctant participants! ||
 * Allison/Rogers-Intervention Specialist || Wordle is a great visual representation of thoughts, ideas, concepts, information, etc. A fun way to connect information. ||
 * Thom Ziems/ Math Teacher, Cardinal Stritch Catholic || Wordle is a different way to look broadly at a topic or idea. I think it would work quite well as either an introduction or summary of a topic as well. ||
 * Thom Ziems/ Math Teacher, Cardinal Stritch Catholic || [[image:Wordle.png width="566" height="233"]] ||

title="Wordle: Mendel"> || Rogers || I really like Wordle. It is a great way to creatively express thoughts and ideas. The use of bold, color variations and word size helps to pull out the main concept or idea. I am a very visual person so this works well for me. I think students would really like using this technology tool. ||
 * Caine/Clay HS/Science || Looking forward to exploring wordle as a tool for students to identify key themes in writings. Here is an example from an access excellence article on gregor mendel: <a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3800861/Mendel"
 * Kelly/Administrator
 * Megan Barr/Biology Teacher || I like wordle a lot. It seems that todays students are so into drawing and doodling that this is a good way to be creative. Students can take a chapter of vocab words and make a wordle or they can take Biology themed words and make a cover for their binder. It could also be used as a beginning of a presentation. ||
 * Jim Mills/Integration Specialist/Trotwood || [[image:None_so_Blind.png width="402" height="185"]]None so blind as he who sees too much. ||


 * James Rodgers || This is a great tool to use as a springboard for class projects and creative endeavors. Easily points out main ideas in texts. ||

media type="custom" key="9927235" || Piqua HS || I think Wordle would be a good way to introduce new vocabulary terms for any unit. Students could also use it at the beginning of the year to introduce themselves to their classmates. They could use words that described them and their personality traits. Wordle isn't one of my favorite Web 2.0 applications but I have used it once in my classroom. We were studying reality television and before the unit began students had to type up a short reponse explaining what they thought "reality" meant. I then copied and pasted all of their responses into Wordle and showed them what the Wordle looked like the next day. We then had a conversation about the type of responses that were given based on what showed up in the Wordle. || Piqua HS Math Teacher || Wordle would be a great application for the introduction of Geometry terms, especially considering how many new vocabulary words are introduced. || Woodward HS Math teacher ||< I completely agree with the above post about Wordle being great for Geometry. We have had several discussions in our department about what the most important words are for the students to know and I really think this would be a great tool to help US figure out that as well. I could see how we could use this continuously updating as different terms are introduced. On a side note, it reminds me very much of the tweating that happened during the time of Michael Jackson's death, showing in real time how many people tweated during that time. It was the first time I had encountered a tool such as this, and the image still remains with me two years later. || to scroll to the other end, it all worked. Wordle is a fascinating tool, and I can see many applications in the classroom. Perhaps having students pick out what they think are the main points, then see how Wordle stacks up the word usage? || I tried to attach it here but I can't get it to work. I copied the code and pasted it but only the code shows up. See below.  || Thanks Debby. It worked. || NCH, Math || I created a wordle using my daughter's notes on fibonacci. I wasn't able to attach it. I like how you could change the font and colors with a click of a button. I wish our textbooks were on line because I would create a wordle to introduce each chapter that we will study. At a glance, the students will be able to recognize the important vocabulary || Piqua, Science || This would be a great way to start a unit or lesson with the important terms and concepts. I like the variety of colors, fonts, and positions you can put the words into on the wordle. I would also creat this as a type of review of key terms before quijhfsdfjszzes, exams or other assessments. Students could use as an "exit slip" from the day's lesson before they leave the class to express what they understand from the day's lesson. || Rogers High School || Wordle would be a great review activity. You could use it to create some kind of review game for students before a quiz or test. || North College Hill || http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3882458/Industrial_Revolution - One of my goals is to have them search for primary sources each unit, create a wordle and select from the 5 largest terms that are being showcased and create a story, or explain the significance of the top 5 largest vocabulary. || Jim Engel TIC North College Hill High School
 * Nathan/Math/Clay || I like how this converts words to art. Would be a good first page for notes so students are always looking at the key concepts for each chapter every day. ||
 * Chris Barr/Piqua HS || This is something that is interesting, but I don't necessary understand how I would use this in class except of a cover page to notes or as a talking point before a new lesson.
 * Morgan Nickolai
 * Kathleen Morrison, Woodward HS || Wordle could also be used as a tool for concept mapping. It could be used to trigger thoughts as to how all the different ideas and terms used in geometry are related. Also, it is just a great visual reminder for all the things students know, and are learning. It would be fun to show now vs later Wordles. Students could build one with the knowledge the currently have on a subject, and then build another at a later time to demonstrate how much more they have learned. I think kids sometimes don't realize how much and how far they really have come. ||
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 * Kathleen Morrison || I took some time tonight to go and play with Wordle some more. I copied and pasted my Facebook profile into it. I thought that could even be a neat project for students looking to do some sort of self reflection (not a math project.) I also went to a digital copy of one of hour text books and copied a section into it. It highlighted the terms in an amazing way that shows the importance of some of our vocabulary. I also highlighted some of our Moodle discussions to see what would happen. Very cool. It really does create a great representation of our discussions. ||
 * Peggy Rybarczyk || I agree with using wordle in geometry. This will be an interesting way to review the terms and definitions. Also, to show the students how much that they have learned. ||
 * Debby Hartwell || The hardest part of this assignment was finding the "edit this page" button that was clear over on the other side of the document. Once I finally got smart enough
 * Pamela Myers || Wordle is something that I would have to give some thought about how I would use it in my classroom. The only thought I have is to give the students a topic and have them come up with words that would describe the topic. I found that the only way I could make a wordle was to be in Firefox or Safari. I tried on Chrome but it would not allow Java Script.
 * Pamela Myers || [[image:Materials_Wordle.png width="400" height="241"]]
 * Sue Rahn || This would be a fun way to examine a favorite poem or a difficult passage; the words jump out all different ways. Cool how the link is provided and you can just copy and paste into your document or webpage. ||
 * Keith Spangler, NCH || [[image:http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/1381018/US_Constitution link="http://www.wordle.net/display/wrdl/1381018/US_Constitution"]]This one clearly shows how concerned the Framers of the Constitution were about the power of the Executive Branch. ||
 * Kara Graham
 * Jared Askins
 * Emilio Ramirez/Ad,, Woodward HS || I can see OGT questions, vocabulary words, formulas, and the like and have the students create them and post all over the building. We have a printing department so this is nice. ||
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 * Linda Gausman/Trotwood-Madison High School || I like the way that the wordle is almost like a concept map. It would be great to use for the Science OGT content vocabulary, because our students will write the word an definition and then forget it! If they could visually see the concept in their head, then it would be an association with the words when they are used in the content or on the assessments. They could be creative and develop an image that was relevant to them and would retain it longer. The colors and the font changes would really help IEP students who have visual difficulties! ||
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 * Ann Brinkley/North College Hill || This is from my discussion: I can see wordles assisting teachers with vocabulary (weak standard for us) and improving science comprehension of major concepts (lowest score on OGT). Students can generate their own key concepts to better understand.[[image:Screen_shot_2011-09-18_at_4.00.21_PM.png width="800" height="538"]] ||

Technology choices can be overwhelming for all involved. Learners need to go "with what works for them" and then adopt new if "better".