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Breann Payne, Lucia Rodriguez, Chad Fingerson 9/28/11

=__**A. What is Wordle?**__=

====‍Wordle is a site for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Teachers can have students incorporate words from a text. Probably the greatest feature of Wordle is its ability to show you the most common words used from a specific text. It does this by increasing the size of the word in the "word cloud" based on the number of times the word is used. For example let's look at Abraham Lincolns' Gettysburg Address: ====



From this we can see the President Lincoln used the words nation, and dedicated them most. It's an excellent tool for analyzing text specifically speeches, or written assignments.

‍Student's may insert words that seem to be unfamiliar in a textbook or a passage to a story. Wordle lets students and teachers generate different images that help the student remember the words visually and mentally. Wordle allows students to work in a group or individually and display the words in their preferred area of the classroom. The teacher may choose this technology to make it fun and interesting when reviewing for spelling tests or doing a vocabulary exercise with their students. Teachers may choose to do this in a computer lab setting or using a smart board if available.

This video gives some insight on how Wordle can be used, as well as a quick way to save your Wordle as an image. media type="custom" key="10465738"

The following YouTube clip helps demonstrate how to save a generate Wordle as an image.

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=‍B. **__Need to Know or Facts__** =


 * ‍Wordle can be used with any subject.
 * ‍It is easy and it can help build vocabulary skills.
 * ‍Wordle helps students use their creativity and imagination!
 * When doing this a teacher and student can type this form a website, text or even a blog.
 * Enlarges words based on the frequency of use.
 * By default ignores common English words such as "the, a, I, etc..."
 * By default does not allow for numbers to show in the cloud but this setting can be changed.
 * Does not allow for the use of symbols.

These are examples from websites of word clouds already created.

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**C. How to Create Your Own**__ =

‍4. Click "GO" if you used the text box, or "Submit" if you used an URL <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. At this point you have the ability to change the color, font size, or the positioning of you words. You can do this by using the menu located at the top of the "word cloud" or by hitting the "Randomize" button. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 6. Once all your changes are done. Click the "Save to public gallery" button. It will ask you to title your work, and author name if you choose to put one in. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 7. Save the URL of your Wordle to access at a future date.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Visit []
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Click on "Create" in the "Create your own" text on the front page.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Here you have two options
 * Input your specified text into the text box
 * Or use the link to a specific blog, news article, etc...

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**‍D. __Examples in “real life”/general uses__** =


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍You can use it in your classroom to instruct a grammar lesson.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍You can use it to teach vocabulary, new words or words unfamiliar to your students.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍This can help build great communication tools between students and teachers. By the teacher seeing the Wordle clouds being used, the teacher is able to assist by looking for a pattern in a specific task the student was assigned to. The teacher may say to the student “Okay, boys and girls--we are going to create a word cloud by using Wordle. I want to read this story, then when you come across words that are unfamiliar, type in the text box provided by Wordle. Once you are finished please put your heads down to indicate to me that you are finished.’’ By giving these specific instructions, the teacher can tell what words they are struggling with and make an assignment around using those words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The teacher and student are able to understand and discover patterns in student writing.

=**E. __Classroom/Learning Uses__**=

**1. __Teacher Uses__**

 * The teacher can educate the students in a fun and constructive manner. The students will be more engaged in the lessons, because they are doing hands on activities as an alternative of listening to a lecture. They also work on collaborative learning.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher uses the words in the cloud for spelling test.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A vocabulary preparation, such as filling in the blanks, matching and try figure the meaning of the vocabulary word by reading the sentences.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher can also give as to help the student find main idea in a text.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher can use this technology and present to other teachers when conducting meetings or presenting new ideas, such as a new way of presenting in a topic.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍2. __**Student Uses**__

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Students learn elements of the keyboard while enhancing their vocabulary.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The teacher can also give instructions to help the student find the main idea in a text.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The student is able to see the word that is used most frequently.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3**. __Possible differentiation for Special Needs/ELL students (if you can think of any)__** __Extra Credit__

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The word cloud helps visual learners see their word usage. It helps them because font size, color and types of fonts are adjustable.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍This could help dyslexic or ELL students see the letters on the keyboard and then type them on the screen. When a student does this, it can help bring the words or the letters to them in a meaningful way that they understand or help them remember.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The student who has dyslexia could do this by typing in a story and then seeing if there is word they used numerous times or one that might have been misspelled frequently.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍The ELL student is able to type the word they are struggling with; for example, the student can retype the word maybe five times or until they feel they have learned the word. The Wordle program gives you an option to keep adjusting the setting. This allows the student to alter it the best way they see fit to remember that word or see where they may need to make a correction.

**‍4. __Parent uses__**

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parents are able to help their children with homework.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parents can also help their kids enhance their spelling and grammar skills.

=**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">F. __Content Specific Uses__ **= media type="youtube" key="Fo5q386cWuc" height="315" width="560"
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English - Students using specific words to frequently for writing assignments? Have your students use Wordle too discover those common words and encourage them to use other words. Here is an example:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">History - Place historical speeches and discover significant words used in the speech. Have them analyze why the most common words were used specifically.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science - Creatively display keywords for upcoming quizzes or tests.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">G. **__Resource links to examples of classroom uses or articles/online sources with suggestions for use in the classroom, lesson plans__** =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An article from ISTE on how to use Wordle: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Wordle for vocabulary.pdf]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] -This lesson plan allows the student to find the postive traits about themselves through looking at themselves and seeing what their peers see. The teacher is able to display the student work and see the creations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - This site has a slide show that shows different ways that Wordle can be used and gives examples for each category. media type="custom" key="10637062" - This is a slideshow that shows 52 interesting ways to use Wordle!

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**H. __Citations/Works Cited__** =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barrett, Tom. (2009, September 13th). //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clif's Notes //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Retrieved September 27th, 2011, from Wordle In The Classroom: [] Blizzard, T. (2009, February 27). //Blizzard Internet Marketing//. Retrieved October Thursday, 2010, from How to Create Word Clouds: [] Chesser, L. (2010). //Rocket Moms//. Retrieved October Thursday, 2010, from Squidoo, LLC: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corney, D. (2010). //David Corney Blog//. Retrieved October Thursday, 2010, from David Corney: My Career in Wordles: [] Dubois, C. (2007). //Digtial Wish//. Retrieved Ocober Thursday, 2010, from Digtial Wish: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feinberg, J. (2009). //Wordle//. Retrieved September Thursady, 2010, from Wordle: [] Mora, Samantha (August 2009). Words in a Cloud. //Learning and Leading with Technology//. 28-29.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adapted from the following previous Wikis:

http://innovationsfall10tuesdaythursday.wikispaces.com/Innovations_Wordle http://innovationsfall10hybrid.wikispaces.com/Innovations_Wordle