This is a quick cool tool http://www.wordle.net/ that highlights word use. The most frequently used words are the largest. I made this one using my blog posts. It is very easy!
A teacher librarian had students do it with a portion of different well-known books. The students then had to try to identify which books they were. Here's link with a sample. http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/342382/fellowship_of_the_ring This is an article the teacher librarian wrote. http://ssla.ca/medium_articles/submissions/pdf/winter2009_pdf/Wordle_mobertos_winter09.pdf
As I created the above wordle, it highlights the concepts that I've been reflecting on. I think the tool has many possibilities, both for my work with teachers as they do their own reflections, but also with students. Students can use it to summarize their journals, a response to a book, a description of a book, etc. It could be taken even a step further to critique the wordle and see if it really does show the main concepts and ideas that you were intending to get across. Many possibilities!
2 comments:
Joanne please tell me how and the heck you posted the image. I just got a link. Help.
Hi Joanne,
Jim is really wanting to know the trick to posting a wordle. He asked me how because I did it (somehow) the first time but I haven't been able to do it since.What is your secret?
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