Useful for helping students spell things correctly the first time without practicing incorrect spellings over and over again. Also useful for decreasing the number of keystrokes and increasing productivity.
"The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests."
The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests. Students can use these as prompts or to have key vocabulary words at the ready when writing an essay on a specific topic. Teachers can use this feature for fill in the blank vocabulary worksheets or use to instruct students to use particular vocabulary words when writiing an essay.
STRATEGY: When a student comes across a word not already in his or her lexicon invite the student to highlight that word using a specific color. These words can then be collected to create a dictionary of niggling words. Students can then focus studies on those specific target words.
This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a "traditional" research paper - including the use of 3×5 note cards - because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it "archaic."
He wanted to hear a response from a college professor about how best to prepare students for the kinds of research that they would be doing in composition courses that they would be taking after high school. Below, I have copied and pasted the response that I offered him via email. And, now I ask you… What do you think - is it time to move away from "traditional" research paper writing processes?