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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.

June 20, 2008 post. Several ideas for using wordle. Students create wordles about themselves listing their name and characteristics, hobbies, etc. Students create wordles describing a character in a novel for a character study. It would be fun to create these without the names and then have students guess who the wordle refers to.

The Power of Words - The students will analyze political speeches for intent based on word usage andconnotation. Students will also discuss the purpose and importance of politicalspeeches in the context of an election.

Educators and students can use WORDLE in a variety of ways, including assessment, evaluation and presentation. WORDLE can be a powerful tool for learning and teaching. By forming this group, collaboration will increase our knowledge and use of this web application.

Wordle is a great tool to use in numerous ways. Students enjoy it as well as teachers. It allows you to be very creative in a number of subjects.

the students selected to use the largest words as those they thought were most significant in the life story of Martin Luther King; this is a great way to improve reading comprehension and expand the narrative

here are the teacher's direction for using offline wordles....you should want to know; imo

here are the teacher's direction for using offline wordles....you should want to know; imo

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

Idea posted to a blog about using Wordle for getting the gist of a weather forecast. The author has taken the words from a weather forecast and asks the students why they think certain words are larger than others.

This is so easy but a really effective way to engage students with their spelling lists. Love it!

Wordle of President Obama's speech to students across the U.S. (Wordle #2)

Wordle of President Obama's speech to students across the U.S.

A few great ideas for how to display individual student wordles.

Wordle created from the text of McCain's concession speech; from a Plurk message that I didn't bookmark.

use this as a compare/contrast of Obama's and McCain's acceptance/concession speech

I totally agree with your comment about WORDLE serving to highlight the commanlities. As an EFL teacher, I tend to focus a lot on the common words in English, as these are the words that define our fluency in the language. I use the BNL2709 vocabulary profiler for this at http://lextutor.ca/vp/bnl -- when you compare McCain and Obama's use of the most common words in their speeches, it can be a good starting point for a compare/contrast analysis which is accessible to most EFL students (well, those above B1 on the CEFR scale). When I get a good result for a WORDLE, I save it to the public gallery. Perhaps interesting to view WORDLEs focusing on the common words in English below with your WORDLE of unfiltered words in the McCain speech in mind. Compare the two WORLDEs http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/289555/Obama_Speech_5-11-08_-_BNL2709 http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/289552/McCain_Speech_5-11-08_-_BNL2709 Notice the differences in frequency of words in both speeches (campaign, bless, nation, unite, promise, achieve, white). Also of note are the words that appear in one and not the other like fail, victory, generation. :) Creating complementary WORDLEs like this can be another useful way to explore the compare/contrast issue that you mention.

"Concordle has one point common with Wordle: it makes word clouds. But these are only text, and in a browser in general the choice of fonts is limited, so the clouds are not so very pretty. But it is much more clever: All the words in the cloud are clickable, i.e. they have links to concordancer function. "

Quirky little javascript, but I am using this as a way to introduce students to the notion of word frequency and the application of a KWIC. See 'wikisheet' at http://kristinaweb20.pbworks.com/activity+-+introduction+to+ddl for an 'introduction to data-driven learning' with a Concordle task.

Thanks Sheryl I've been wondering for a few months now how to get my head around this type of skillet and it is cool how this site references ideas and how to's of infographic creation. This is a Critical Literacy of future and essential for current students. #CritLit2010

This silent WORDLE video of the same text, has relevant implications for teaching and learning. It seems to me that students with visual learning strengths or preferences could use several different versions of the same words they need to learn, put them in a slideshow and pace the slide time change.