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Build Literacy Skills with Wordle

A couple of months ago, my network of teachers went a little bit nuts over a new web2.0 application called Wordle. I blogged about it, as did many others.

Great way to check the content of your blog posts...

Yes, Diane. I've suggested that teachers might use it as an assessment, or at least a check for students to use to see what their writing is REALLY about...

from Wm Chamberlain's post on "At the Teachers Desk" blog.

Decades in Review using Wordle concept.

I hope that this solution works for the majority of Wordle users. I am, certainly, excited to get back in the classroom and try this out with the kids. I think they are going to LOVE it! Becky

contains a WORDLE using the advanced feature, along with a variety of other language lessons, developments and activities

There are a variety of excellent activities and lessons that I would encourage our members to read. Welcome Steve Neufeld to our WORDLE group.

An example of maniupulting the output from a collocates/pattern table in Just the Word as input for the ADVANCED feature of WORLDE.

Hi Sheryl - glad you found it useful. You are quite right about the spreadsheet idea...I tend to use EXCEL and some of the basic TEXT, LOOKUP and FILTER options to manipulate lexical data I get from various sources. I did leave several suggestions for PHIL at the JustTheWord user group in GOOGLE to make the 'mash up' between JTW and WORDLE more seamless. But, as you suggest, copying and pasting the data into a spreadsheet is the only way to do this at the moment. Spreadsheets aren't everyone's cup of tea, but perhaps we could provide a template for the faint at heart, which can make it easier.... I also use the same technique to extract 'sets' from Mark Davies corpus sites at http://corpus.byu.edu as well as vocabulary profiles at Tom Cobb's Lextutor site at http://lextutor.ca -- Of course, PC-based software like ANTCONC and ANTWORDPROFILE also output data that can easily be manipulated into the ADVANCED feature of WORDLE. Here are some WORDLEs in my public gallery that show the results...the ones contrasting OBAMA and McCAIN speeches are quite interesting. http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=BNL2709 My background is EFL, so I find other sources of lexical sets like http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=mouse&btn=Shrink+Set+%28to+15+items+or+fewer%29 also useful as input to WORDLE. :)

I'll look over these resources. Yes, I made WORDLES of Obama and McCain. I think one reason these types of web applications are so interesting is to view the ways in which we teach and learn....what our commonalities are.

very cool way to overcome blocked technology in the classroom; kudos to Mr. Drummond and Primary 6.

this is what a teacher did with his students when he discovered that WORDLE was blocked in his school.

this is what a teacher did with his students when he discovered that WORDLE was blocked in his school.

7 practical ideas for using Wordle with ESL and EFL students.