WordClouds - Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Teaching with Word Cloud Tools. Teaching with Word Clouds. 19 Word Cloud Resources, Tips, & Tools. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Sunday, February 14th 2010 Part of the Cool Sites series Learning new vocabulary can be quite daunting for most students.
We just have to look at the literacy rates to see how much children struggle with vocabulary. Rote learning of vocabulary does not really work. Experience has taught me students remember what they use and explore. Wordle Wordle is one of the best ways to engage learners if you know how to use it well. Alternatives. Vocabulary 2.0: 15 Tips, Tools, & Resources. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Saturday, February 20th 2010 Part of the Cool Sites series In every subject students must acquire new vocabulary, which is often taught through rote memorization.
» Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds TEFL Matters. In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities.
This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey and as the course is still available for viewing, I would encourage everyone to visit the related section (as well as the rest of the sections) to find many more great ideas on these tools. This is perhaps the most popular of all these three tools and, I think with good reason. Wordle creates word clouds from any text that you paste into it ommitting structural words and keeping content words.
It also chooses size by the frequency of use of a word in a text, so can easily show the main theme of a text. The word clouds are visually very pleasing and there is a great variety of colour combinations, fonts and cloud shapes that you can choose from. Here is the cloud from the same poem. Plus points. 170 Ways To Use Word Clouds In Every Classroom. Welcome to a post I always have fun writing.
Last year I attempted finding ways to use Word Clouds (Wordle) in education. When I concluded writing that post I was at 108 possible ways. More than a half year went by, and I was up to 125 ways to use Word Clouds in the classroom. I am so proud that this post now includes 170 ways. I was able to put together this list because of you and a lot of reflection. Word Mess for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store. ImageChef for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln's. Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web.
(Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush's second inaugural speech through as well. The most common words in the Obama and Bush speeches were dramatically different. Obama's Speech If you want to search inside Obama's speech to see how he used these words, try using the video player below, courtesy of Delve Networks.
Bush's Speech 2005 Bill Clinton's Second Inauguration Speech. Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Wordle In. Guess the wordle. WordCam! (FREE) Elsewhere poem - Word cloud. World whisper weapon wars wait turn towns Tipsy time stop pages museum multivolume meet mad Love live like library last I'd alone hearts happily hand-embroidered fun fight Evanescence humanity departure death chapter born arrival army Elsewhere.
Poetry Fun With Word Clouds. We are in the middle of one of my favorite reading units in kindergarten – poetry! This unit was actually removed from our mandatory curriculum, but I still spend a few weeks on it with my kids because I love it so much! (And so do they.) We have been discussing and exploring how poems have a special “look,” or shape. We began by just looking at how poems look , noticing the many different ways they are set up.
We then spent a day looking specifically at shape poems, where the words are actually forming pictures themselves. Today we looked at the shape of poems in a different way – using word clouds. In the Create section of the program there is an option to Load. We then created one cloud together all about dinosaurs. 52 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom. 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo. WordCloud. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters » Blog Archive » Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds. Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds Written on February 11, 2010 – 2:37 am | by Marisa Constantinides In this post, I am going to look at Wordle , Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities.
This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey and as the course is still available for viewing, I would encourage everyone to visit the related section (as well as the rest of the sections) to find many more great ideas on these tools. This is perhaps the most popular of all these three tools and, I think with good reason. Wordle creates word clouds from any text that you paste into it ommitting structural words and keeping content words.
The word clouds are visually very pleasing and there is a great variety of colour combinations, fonts and cloud shapes that you can choose from. Here is the cloud from the same poem. Plus points N.B. Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds. WordItOut - Generate word clouds (and make custom gifts) WordSift - Visualize Text. Word Mosaic.
VocabGrabber. Develop Your Marketing Vocabulary. For people who want to use English within their profession, it is becoming increasingly important to be able to develop your English within specific work related topics. So in today's activity we are going to look at how you can do that. Today we will be looking at how you can develop you listening and vocabulary knowledge of marketing and particularly online marketing. We will be using a listening and script from the Double Click website as well as some web based tools to help you learn, record and remember new words. Task: Go to: Here you will see an image of Carl Hendra. To download the script you will need to click on 'Download Transcript' and then 'Carla Hendra' Once you have done this, copy the first section of the script and go to the VocabGrabber website. This will produce a 'word cloud' of the words in the text.
Language activities with Wordle and word clouds. Levels: elementary to advanced.
Ages: kids; teens; adults. Type: quite a few uses for the famous word cloud generator, and some links to many more. Skills: listening; speaking; reading; writing; pronunciation. Language focus: various vocabulary and grammar points. Book Chook Tutorial - Adding Pics to Wordle. . I wanted to make a video to show you all, but I have run out of time. I'm resorting to text, and hurried text at that. Here are my directions. I doubt very much if this is the best way, but it was what worked for me (with lots of help from my son). Book Chook Resolutions for 2010. Recently about remembering to use fun as a motivator for learning. Today I decided to put my own words into action. I would see if by applying that principle, I could take another step forward in learning how to use Photoshop.
How did it go? I thought you'd never ask! Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters » Word Clouds. In this post, I am going to look at Wordle , Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey and as the course is still available for viewing, I would encourage everyone to visit the related section (as well as the rest of the sections) to find many more great ideas on these tools. This is perhaps the most popular of all these three tools and, I think with good reason. Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters » Search Results » word cloud. Search Results Thinking about Discipline – Part 1 Sunday, April 29th, 2012 This is the first part of a short series of blog posts on the topic of Discipline.
Microsoft ClipArt. Photo Word Art on the App Store. Schoenberger, Maureen / Holiday Song Tagxedo. Guess The Wordle - Home. Word clouds. Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters » Blog Archive » My Blog in the Clouds. My Blog in the Clouds Written on March 28, 2011 – 12:24 am | by Marisa Constantinides A quick and fun mini blog challenge by David Dogson in his blog post here – I fed my blog URL to Wordle and Tagxedo and look which words they have gone for! Here is my blog in the clouds! Made with Tagxedo.com. Creator. Word Clouds by ABCYa.com. Wordsalad - Beautiful word clouds - Lite Edition on the App Store.