Unit+2+-+Wordle+Ideas



After you have experienced creating a WORDLE, post a comment about anything you have observed about Wordle or your ideas for how you might use it instructionally. See the examples provided below. When you are ready to post your thoughts about Wordle, remember to click on the **EDIT **tab at the top right, then click in the next available row in the table to type your name and your one sentence idea or thought about Wordle. If all the rows have been used, click in the last row and then click on the table icon. Then, choose **Row**, **Add Row**, **Add below** to add another row for your entry.


 * BE SURE TO SAVE! ** Revisit this page to see what others have posted-save good ideas to use in your classroom!
 * ===‍**Participant Name** === || ===‍**Ideas about using a Web 2.0 Technology like Wordle** === ||
 * Donna Pepper || I like the way words that I have used more than once appear larger since it helps me get a visual of the "big ideas" in my writing. ||
 * Cheryl Ward || Paste in the content of a famous speech and see if students know the speech, study the words used most frequently, is that why the speech was famous? ||
 * Tina/Coventry || This reminds me of something I used to do to my locker in high school. I'd cut words out of magazines to make a collage for the inside of my locker. Those collages spoke volumes about me. This is a neat way to creatively present thoughts. ||
 * Sarah Luthy || At the beginning of the school year, I discusss with my students about what math is. They write down their ideas on post-it notes, and then we put them into a Wordle. This way everyone's ideas are represented. Once we click "go" we are able to see what the students believe are the big ideas of math. At the end of the year, we we will repeat the process, so that the students are able to see their growth of understanding math. ||
 * Tami Null || An alternative to my usual Powerpoint Project "All About Me", students could use Wordle to describe or introduce themselves. ||
 * Jason Guffey || This would be good to help students remember how things tie together in a chapter or as a prewriting activity. ||
 * Rich Dooley || Wordle is a neat way for students to write and see a creative display of their writing. Students could create a short draft of something they would write in Language Arts or maybe a unit in Social Studies or Science. This could be an excellent way for students to show their understanding. ||
 * Chris Downs || Wordle could be used in multiple ways in my eighth grade classrooms. For ex, the main topic of addition could be typed in and then type words that equal addition such as sum, total, altogether, etc.. ||
 * Vickie Elliott || Wordle could be used to emphasize vocabulary from a story as well as important events or connections to the story. ||


 * Jessica Murphy || I think Wordle would be a great way to tie themes between important pieces of litereature. It would also be a great way to have students demonstrate understanding of character traits. Each student could Wordle a character they found interesting and "cloud" the different character traits that was discovered throughout the text. This would make a great novel display board! ||