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Wordle isn't necessarily ESL focused, but it does do fun things with language. Teachers can use this application to create vocabulary word splashes that are visually appealing to students, or teachers can let students play with their own words. For example, students can input an essay and world will pick out the most frequent words and put them into a cool design. It's a simple and easy way to manipulate language.

Jena, I'm glad you posted this. I think that this has some great potential for introducing vocabulary in the pre- or -post phases of a lesson for different skills or content classes. I like that you can choose different fonts, # of words that can be displayed and the direction of displayed words. You can also embed this into blogs and wikis. For a good blog post on using word clouds in the classroom, you might want to check out Nic Peachey's post on this subject: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-word-clouds-in-efl-esl.html As an aside, in my opinion this guy is perhaps one of the most active technology/CALL ESL people on the web. I get a lot of great ideas from reading his blog posts and other resources.

This is very interesting.. It can be used by teachers of vocabulary and writing.. I like the fact that it can be used ina number of ways. Thanks Jena

Wall Wisher seems like a great application for getting students to add their ideas to an online posting board. I think it has a lot of potential. They can also add youtube videos which can be watched in class.

I thought I just shared this on here but I don't see it below! haha this teacher in my program just gave a workshop on this. it's a pretty cool tool with a lot of different applications. I actually did a write up on the workshop for the UM's current events feed, check it: http://um2.umac.mo/apps/com/bulletin.nsf/nrsview/2184F90458D580DA48257BDB00116A5F