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=He's Making a List, Checking It Twice. . . =


Santa is making his list a little differently this year. In 2009 it is in the form of a WORDLE, or a word cloud. Did you make it on Santa's 'good' list this year? When you arrive on the wordle site, click on CREATE. Where it says to Paste in a Bunch of Text, type in the names of your students. The more times a word is added to a wordle, the larger the word appears. Julie, Nancy, and Randy's names are the largest in this wordle because their names were added three times. Some of the other names were added twice with the smallest names only added once. Then click go and your word cloud will be created!


Now experiment with the font, layout, and colors. You really have several choices in how your wordle looks!


The best option you have for saving the wordle is to take a screen shot of it (Apple/Option/4). Other choices are to save it


 as a PDF (File/Print/PDF) and/or save it to the gallery. In our district the gallery


 is blocked so that really isn't an option. I don't like the way the wordle looks in a PDF so that's why I said taking a screen shot of it is the best option.


<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> That's all really pretty cool, now try this. Go to Wordle again and create a new wordle. Instead of //typing// in text, search for a primary source document, like the Declaration of Independence, copy the text, and paste it. Click on go. The words that are used the most are the largest. What is the theme of the Declaration of Independence?

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<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ords. But look at the very last item in the list. Show Word Count. You can see how many times each word was used in this document!

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 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use the tilde to keep words together in the wordle. Ex. United~States

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 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After creating the wiki, choose Colors/Edit Custom Palette. Click on each of the 4 colors to choose from a great variety

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 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have students type their words in Pages and save the document. Then copy/paste the list into Wordle. In Pages students will be able to do a spell check AND they'll have a copy of their words just in case Wordle doesn't work correctly. Occasionally when making a wordle you get a cup of Java instead of a Wordle! Ugh, so just in case that happens you'll have a copy of the text in another application.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Instructions for Making Wordle Safe in the Classroom These instructions are for the systems administrator so that the gallery is blocked so students will not be exposed to inappropriate wordles.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bob Sprankle has a video tutorial of wordle on his blog. Be sure to read the comments as several teachers have responded with ideas on using wordle in the classroom.

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 * Novel. Have students create a wordle on the novel they are reading. Name the main characters, the setting, the theme, an event, the author, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Guess the Wordle by Jenuinetech. This is one of my favorites! Jen has made a wordle for each day.

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Monday's Wordle will be easy. All the words will have ONE thing in common. Wednesday's Wordle will be a bit more complex. All the words will have TWO things in common. Friday's Wordle will be the most difficult. All the words will have THREE things in common. > Tuesday's Wordle will be the date of a famous event in world history. Thursday's Wordle will be the title of a book, poem, song, fable, etc.
 * Why Wordle - Tech & Learning Blog - there are many comments from teach

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ers near the bottom of this blog full of great ideas!
 * Introduce a Unit. When introducing a new unit, show a wordle with key words on the topic. The wordle can be a springboard to find out prior knowledge on the topic. Or have the students create a wordle on the topic you're getti

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ng ready to study to check their prior knowledge.
 * Ideas to Inspire - 43 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom
 * Take a Look at Some Historic American Rhetoric
 * <span class="wiki_link_ext">Inaugural Addresses Comparisons . Great visualizations of the Pr

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 * Obama's STEM Speech (created by fsinfo on Plurk)

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 * Spelling Lists - Change it up a little and give the students a word cloud instead of a spelling list!
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Skills Workshop Blog several creative ideas for usin

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 * <span class="wiki_link_ext">A Really Useful Wordle Trick - this is great!
 * Wordle in Education - More great ideas!
 * YouTube Video on Wordle in the Classroom

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Oh, you're going to like this one! Very simple to use! This connects to Visual Thesaurus which is great for help with understanding word meaning. It also connects with Images and videos which might be inappropriate. With a filter, hopefully they won't be too bad. Just give it a try before you use it with students.

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