Word Clouds

I have actually used Wordle for classroom activities. I usually like to use this activity for a get to know you activity where the students list characteristics and interests that they have. They can also include their birthdays, age, brother/sister names, parent names, pet names, favorite color, favorite sport, favorite music, and the list can continue. I do ask that the student leave out their actual name so that when I read them the students can try to guess who it is. This activity can by used for a variety of activities, subjects, and concepts. The students also enjoy seeing their creations posted in the classroom.

Here is my Wordle Creation of the famous speech addressing the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Here is my World Creation for the subject Math.

I feel as if this activity would best match up with Standard #2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. Wordle is a contemporary tool that allows students to maximize their learning and development of skills and tasks. This tool encourages creativity in their learning process. Here they can manage their own words, colors, direction of words, and font size. They can clearly see their own progress and what they have created. I can quickly connect this to an assessment on say the Scientific Method. Here they could be asked to create a word cloud that includes the steps to the Scientific Method. They could easily be assessed say on the scientific equipment that they will be using during lab. I could easily have the equipment laying out and they would have to come up with their scientific names. Then create a word cloud that contains all of their lab equipment names. See my example.