"Once upon a time there was a Google Spreadsheets script that would create word clouds for you. When the new (current) version of Google Spreadsheets was launched that script stopped working. This morning I found a replacement for that old script."
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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I previously published 21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary which has been widely read and quite popular with educators.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This infographic provides 21 digital tools that help build vocabulary. It is split into the following sections: * Reference Tools * Word Clouds * Word Walls and More Why use digital tools? Here are a few reasons (and there are many more). They allow students to hear spoken words; often words are acccompanied with images, providing a deeper understanding; students may play and manipulate words; and create virtual word walls. We are told to personalize instruction today and digital tools help us do that. Teaching vocabulary is critical and these tools will provide you with resources for a range of students. For more information on the tools you might look at the original post located at http://www.learningunlimitedllc.com/2013/02/20-digital-tools-for-vocabulary/ 
Audrey's curator insight,
November 16, 2013 7:48 AM
This is really great. It is very helpful for students, particularly those whose first language is not English and are learning subjects in the UK.
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Welcome to a post I always have fun writing. Last May 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 ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Mike Gorman returns with 125 ways to use Word Clouds in your classroom. Although focused on Wordle any of the many tools available to create word clouds could be used. Gorman has taken the time to organize these ways into the following categories: * All Subjects * Science * Language Arts * Social Studies * Math * Health and PE and Consumer Sciences * Art and Music * Foreign Languages * Careers Below are two of the 125 suggestions. The first one is for science. * Create a simple food chain showing representing each population of animal by word size. In fact create a whole food web of an area or biome. Use advanced number feature. And this one is for social studies. * Using statistical information from a place such as CIA World Fact Book create word clouds that illustrate country statistics such as resources, ethnic groups, religions, languages, etc. You may wish to use advanced number feature to illustrate prominence of each.
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There's a new way to teach using wordle. It involves actually withholding a bit of information and making students think a bit harder. What fun! If you are looking for a way to use word clouds in your classroom here is one idea. The post asks you to look at a list of quotations and at the word cloud (pictured above) and consider "which is more powerful."
Tanya Taylor's curator insight,
May 27, 2017 5:19 AM
Wordle is a tool for generating 'word clouds' from any text that you provide. The cloud allows words that appear frequently in the source text to take prominence within the 'cloud'. Wordle has a myriad of classroom applications and is extremely easy to use. It also allows users to change fonts, layouts and colour schemes and you can also manipulate your text to withhold certain words to challenge students to find the gaps in the wordle.
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Yippy (a search engine) now has a cloud creator (in beta). Type in your word or phrase, select a border style and link style as well as width and prview your cloud. You may also get the code and add it to your website.
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"I have long heard of Word Webbing, Words Diagrams, Word Art, but how about a Word Cloud? By now you may be either familiar with a Word Cloud, have googled the Weather Channel to get a better idea, or maybe have taken a look out your window to see if there really is such a thing. The concept of a Word Cloud maintains that “If a picture paints a thousand words, then what can a thousand words paint?” The answer of course is a Wordle. Yes, Wordles are amazing Word Clouds that can be created by all." A wealth of information about word clouds with a focus on Wordle with additional posts to come, covering 100 ways to use Word Clouds in your classroom, other word cloud generatorss and moving beyond word clouds.
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Here is a slideshow that provides lots of ideas on how to use Wordle in your classroom.
Edmilson Simões's curator insight,
November 20, 2014 7:25 AM
It is an excellent tool to integrate literacy into other content areas.You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. |
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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...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Wow...170 ideas on how to use word clouds in your classroom! This post was written with Wordle in mind and references a previous post that shares 12 Valuable Wordle Tips You Must Read. The good news...this post is split into sections. What will you find? See the list below. * All Subjects * Science * English Language Arts * Math * Health and Physical Education and Family and Consumer Science * Art and Music * Foreign Language * Applied Arts * Careers This post provides many ideas on how you might us word clouds as a teacher as well as how your learners may use them.
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Because my students need to have a larger repertoire of "Character Traits" to choose from when describing characters in the books we read, we are creating a Visual Thesaurus of traits using Tagul. ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
This lesson plan is a great way to incorporate a range of technology into a lesson. In this case Paul Solarz (the teacher) realized that students needed to learn to use a thesaurus, and chose to have them focus on traits, as they are a key component of literature. After providing lists of character traits to the students he taught them how to use Tagel (to create the word clouds) and thesaurus.com (free online). Click through to the website to read the full post. You will also find a link to the many word clouds that were created by his students) for some of the features included within it. If you have students whom are ELL you may want to check out wordsift.com. It uses visual thesaurus (slightly different than thesaurus.com) and has other resources that help many learners, including images that are associated with specific words, the ability to create a workspace and pull in words and images, and lists of words (such as ELA, science, math, history) so students may learn which words are important in different subjects. WordSift does not allow you to make word clouds as do the many other word cloud tools but is a valuable tool to learn to use.
Mark McMahon's curator insight,
September 5, 2013 1:15 PM
really takes the wind out of a Jane Austen novel. 
Lauren Thorncraft's curator insight,
May 26, 2014 4:47 AM
This resource is a terrific educational and interactive website relevant to the English Syllabus for Stage 2 learners, and links to outcome; WRITING AND REPRESENTING 2 OUTCOME A student:
The site explain's a lesson idea that could be used to increase student's vocabulary on how to describe character traits/characteristics when composing a writing passage or story. It allows student's to broaden their vocabulary repertoire, and gain skills to be able to compose and present well-structured and coherent texts, that include descriptive and interesting character's.
This site can be used following a lesson that has just explained what traits/characteristics are (such as my IWB resource). The site encourages student's to choose a word from the 'characteristic list' (such as the one on my IWB resource). Then determine its common antonym with help from the thesaurus and create a word cloud for it using the synonyms that were listed on thesaurus.com. Additionally, the site displays a link ‘tagul.com’ which is an ICT resource which allows student’s to create ‘word clouds’. Another great tool to introduce to student’s to assist with expanding vocabulary. Overall, this is a great resource that will provide an opportunity for students to learn about characteristics, and accumulate a diverse repertoire of new vocabulary and hopefully assist with writing well-structured and coherent texts.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
The digital tools listed in this post are focused on vocabulary instruction, a key concern given the Common Core State Standards. Vocabulary comes into play when we look at reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students need to have a broad vocabulary, and we can support this through both direct and indirect instruction. This post provides links to online tools in the areas of: * Reference Tools * Word Clouds * Games and Reviews The post states: Digital tools allows students to: * hear pronunciations; * read words in a variety of authentic examples; * view photos and images related to words; * reinforce word learning through interactive games; * play with and manipulate language; * discover rhyming words; and * collaborate with classmates to create virtual words walls. Consider checking out this post and providing time for students to explore some of these tools in and outside the classroom.
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
March 2, 2013 10:00 PM
Literacy is a keystone of education. Teachers must constantly stay ahead of digital tools to all them to teach students. This list of resources is an excellent way to help stay in front!
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"Welcome to the fourth post in this exciting Word Cloud Series. Last time I gave you nine Word Cloud Generators and promised you that the next post would have one of my favorites...Tagxedo." Tagxedo states it is "Tag Clouds with Style." It provides custom shapes and themes, lots of fonts, the ability to save your 'word cloud' as a PNG, JPG and IMGUR image file and much more. No user log-in is required. And there is a link to a slide show of 101 Ways to use Tagxedo. If you like word clouds or are thinking of using them in your classroom this post will provide great information.
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"I have come up with 108 ways to use word clouds in the classroom. I have tried to include almost every subject. These are a collection of ideas shared with me, various readings, and a lot of my own brainstorming...In order to better understand some of the advanced uses I suggest you may wish to read Part One of this series entitled, 12 Valuable Wordle Tips You Must Read." Lists for use of word clouds in All Subject, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Health, PE, Family and Consumer Science, Art and Music, Foreign Language, and Applied Arts are included.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary invites you to create a self-portrait using your words.
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Are you looking for ways to use Tagxedo in your classroom? This slideshow provides many ideas on how to use it in your classroom.
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If you or your students use Google Docs they can quickly generate a word cloud when their document has 100 or more words. Richard Byrne provides clear instructions in this post as well as suggestions on how your students might use the word cloud to help them revise, to find words the may have over used and more!