Week+2+-+Wordle+Ideas

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 * ===**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? ||
 * Rhonda Dickinson || Use Wordle as an evaluative tool where students paste in their own writing, evaluating for some aspect of the writing, for example, main idea. How did the main idea show in the Wordle? Go back to the writing and revise it to more clearly communicate main idea. How did the Wordle change? Does the main idea show more prominently? ||
 * Denise Lutz || Define the characteristics of a particular object, chemical property, theme, character, environment, group, government leadership, etc.
 * Denise Lutz || Define the characteristics of a particular object, chemical property, theme, character, environment, group, government leadership, etc.
 * Ruth Ault || Create a T-shirt transfer with names of students in a class, grade or school. ||
 * Kat Wheeler || Have students write a reflection (Collins Type I) and then transfer into a Wordle. I might do this as one of my year-end activities. The prompt may be something like, "Describe what you learned this year. What suggestions might you offer to next year's 8th grade students." This could comprise next year's bulletin board; it would be more interesting to read than essays.

media type="custom" key="6296809" || media type="custom" key="6306003" align="left" || Questions/prompts that cause for reflection, like: List one thing you wished you could have accomplished this school year. Using one word, I would describe my year as _. Etc. || PVMS || Students could copy/paste multiple content related texts (articles) and use Wordle as a means to discover key terms, themes, and main ideas. Students could then discuss and analyze the reasons why these terms, themes, and ideas are important. || media type="custom" key="6308277" || Barnesville Middle School || Great way to keep science vocabulary terms in front of students while working on a particular unit or concept. Could be used in presentations, as a screen saver, poster. Placed in a powerpoint, video, Smart notebook page, etc. Cool way to "sneak" in some vocab review in a way that is visually stimulating. media type="custom" key="6301923" || Groveport Madison High School || I appear to be the only one who does not care for Wordle. The words are all jumbled together and out or order- I can't make any sense of their meanings or how they relate. I undertand that Wordles "look" cool, and students can type in vocabulary words and definitions and create cool looking stuff, but I am at a loss to see how they could truly be a learning tool for my students. Am I completely missing the point? || F.L.C.S. || I enjoy using woordle with students as a reflective tool to determine student interest on a topic. || Philo Junior High || Wordle could be used to do a new version of a K W L chart. Students could put their lists into wordle to discover what their priorities would be for learning. Staff members could also use it as a part of team goal setting. || PVMS || I would use wordle at the end of a novel. Students could write about a particular character and the other students could decide which character it was from the wordle. || FLCS || This is a great visual tool to use for picking out themes at the end of a unit. Being a social studies teacher there are always common themes throughout the year and in units that often times students struggle to find. This would allow students to brainstorm then plug the words into moodle to help find the larger main ideas. || GMHS || I would use Wordle to have students create "found" poems from literature as a "during" or "after" reading assignment. || CMS || Wordle is neat. It is not one of my first choices to use though...there is never enough time so this is one I would put on the back burner for now...maybe have students use for review of material or at the end of a writing project or for extra credit? || GMHS || I could use Wordle to display geometric vocbulary as a way to review for a test, but other than vocab, I am stuck to find many other math applications. || media type="custom" key="6319585" ||
 * Kari Winhoven || For a poetry unit; create poetry that describe the types of poetry being taught. Create poem for someone special in their lives to give as gifts and frame for different holidays. Use for a Social Studies as an array of words to describe their feelings when hardships of the world are taught. ||
 * Jeremy Powell || I could have the students pick a person, place, or significant event in history and make a Wordle to describe their piece of history. ||
 * Diana Bosie || Wordle makes a picture of words that act as mnemonics. I can see a mental image of the larger words when I think of the wordle I created an and if I "look" a little closer, I can see the smaller words. Word associations for geometric properties could really help the students.Thie wordle below is a product of []
 * Aric Thomas || At the end of the year, have teachers email answers to a few questions/prompts. Copy and paste all of the responses in Wordle and use it as an opening activity to begin the next year.
 * Rick Lambert || Students could create Haiku poems or other types of poems and or vocabulary words to create a Wordle. [[image:Untitled-1.jpg align="left" link="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2124270/NETS-T"]] ||
 * W.Alan Baker || I could have the kids make a wordle using different mathmatical terms used throughout the chapter/notes, such as plus,add,minus, subtract,sum, difference,multiply, divide, quotient. ect. ||
 * Jodi Neff || I think I will use this as an introduction for a unit on an ancient civilization. For example, I will ask the students to write down 5 words/terms that the know about Ancient Egypt. We could then use Wordle to look at the results. We could discuss the terms that were most thought of (easy to see because they are larger) and the terms that very few students thought of. ||
 * Nicole Johnson || Probability-I teach gifted math students, so when we do probability, I got pretty in depth and there is a lot of vocabulary involved. This would be a great way to help students remember the vocabulary because when I say a word, they can usually tell me the meaning or how to use it, but they sometimes have trouble remembering the word itself (theoretical vs. experiemental or permutations vs. combinations) ||
 * Danielle Eubanks || There is a massive amount of vocabulary we focus on for the achievement assessment. I would like to have students brainstorm all the words they can think of when I say a certain topic like "Geometry." This would be done before we start our unit. I would make a wordle out of all of their words. I would then have them make a list //after// our geometry unit, and make a new wordle. We could then discuss how and if our wordles changed from the beginning of the unit to the end. I could do ths before every topic - algebra, measurement, number sense, etc. Good reflection tool for the kids. ||
 * Thelma Leese-Graham || We could use wordle when studying the different biomes. The students could create a design that woud help them to remember the major and minor components that make up that biome. ||
 * Teresa Malloy || Students identifying the similarities and difference of rocks could use wordle to help classify rocks using their characteristics. These characteristics could be based on gathered information from research and observations. ||
 * Julie Miller || Honestly I think Wordle can be used in any content area. Thinking more towards language arts, I would use Wordle in the classroom in many different ways. Students could create characterization charts, story elements charts, they could summarize both fiction and non-fiction texts, they could use it to present a book to the class-the possibilities are endless. As an inclusion teacher, I am definately going to use Wordle in all content areas. It might be an interesting way to present math concepts-such as formulas as well. ||
 * Carolyn Arnold || I would use Wordle as a brainstorming technique for prewriting or as a vocabulary checklist. It could be used as a method to review characters in a novel or the key words in the sequence of a plot. ||
 * Caitlin Jones || I think that there could be many uses for Wordle. Some uses I though of were- introducing vocabulary or key words of a story/chapter/unit, having students write poetry/raps and use Wordle to turn them into a kind of "artwork", have students check their writing to see which words they are using the most or too frequently or just for high lighting key points in a chapter or text. ||
 * Thom Gamertsfelder
 * Jennifer Carpenter || Wordle could be very cool to do a bookreport alternative or a summary of a short story. I could also see using this in the beginning of the year for Autobiography poems.
 * Tim Taylor || Students could use Wordle with debates or persuasive writing. If the points they wanted to make were not the large words in the Wordle, maybe they need to rewrite so that their points come across. ||
 * Aimee Marburger || At the end of each school year I have students write about their favorite unit. The following year, I read their comments to my new students before we start that particular unit. However, it would be very creative to use Wordle to reflect their thoughts on a favorite unit. Plus, I would know what really stood out to them and could adjust instruction if neccessary. ||
 * Justin Sparks || I def. think you could use this when it comes to learning characters or vocab from a novel or a short story unit. It would allow students to organize the information in creative manner. ||
 * William Bartels
 * Jamie Carpenter || This would be a great way to introduce the steps involed in solving mathematical problems such as the Order of Operations.media type="custom" key="6315837" ||
 * Kathleen McDermott
 * Kelley Straight || I would use wordle to introduce key vocabulary words for a Chapter. I could also have the students write a paragraph using the vocabulary words, create a wordle, and then manipulate their text so the key vocabulary words were emphasized. I like that you can print them, so that their work can be displayed. ||
 * Frank Van Kirk
 * Sheryl Wise
 * Carolyn Rankin/ PVMS || In Social Studies we do a weekly writing we call "Friday Write." in which the students respond to a prompt from the current lesson/unit. At the beginning of the year, we model the writing/responses easing the students into their own response writing. Wordle would be a great tool for students to use as they assess their first writings. ||
 * Jane Burton
 * Jennie Hayden
 * Kerry Hurd
 * Kelly Well
 * Heather Houseberg
 * Danielle Passmore/ Barnesville Middle School || I would allow students to use Wordle as a evaluation tool on a specific topic, such as a character, chapter of the novel, or the complete novel.
 * Eric Pressler || The way the words appear in Wordle reminds me of a found poem (a sort of word collage using other literature). I think that some of the word clouds are kind of interesting, but I don't know that I would use it as an end product for a student assignment. It could work to show students that perhaps they are repeating some words too often, and they need to use a wider variety of words in their writing. ||
 * Don Bell || At the begining of the year you could have each student make a list of thier different interest. Then you could make a list and place in Wordle to see what interest was most common among the students in each class. Would be a neat way to get to know your class. Each class could then use the Wordle for the cover on thier folders. ||
 * Tony Sines || I used wordle to creat the staff agenda. Just a differnet way to present the same information with a twist. ||
 * Mollie Earich || Wordle is a perfect instrument for students to use to generate vocabulary words from selected readings. ||
 * TJ Wiseman || I would use Wordle to allow students to compare political candidates, a parties, by using it to analyze speeches by competing politicians. ||
 * William Miller || Neat way to create interest, but not sure if it will benefit in leaning? might be useful to introduce new ideas or concep and allow the students to create a story to go with the wordle. ||
 * David Whanger || I like the idea of using WORDLE to add a new twist to an ongoing journal writing activity where students can then look for emotion words, intellectual words, spiritual words, etc. and then also track how their writing inputs change as they see their journals in this new "visual" light. ||
 * Denise Leach || Wow...where do I start? Grammar assignments, vocabulary in text, spelling words, and then projected. Allowing students to use this media will be a great way to allow them to experience the words several times. Kids will remember it because it's different. ||
 * Julie Erwin || When I looked at it, it is like a piece of art. I have never used wordle before. I would use it to create posters to hang in the building that have character traits, school rule reminders, inspiring words, etc. I would also like to see all teachers using this in their classroom. I think the students would love it! ||
 * Scott Sabino || A school counselor could use this application in a character development program for the school. Students could contribute vocabulary that could be put on folders, banners, t-shirts, etc. ||
 * Thea Patrick || I would love to see students (and staff) use the wordle site to generate a physical representation of their feelings about our school. I think these could be posted in the building as a reminder to what our mission is and how we're seen in the community. The wordles would be a great periodic assignment to track how students (and staff) feel about their school. ||