worrrrrrdles

Here is a wordle consisting of key words from Will Richardson's book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.


I think that the most effective way to use wordles in lesson plans is backwards. Rather than having students read an article or chapter and then create a wordle, do it the other way around. Have students view a wordle and try to gain some coherent understanding of what it is about, then read the actual chapter/article to see if their new understanding aligns with their original understanding. I can see this working better if the wordle was created by hand-choosing key words, rather than just pasting the entire body of text into the site so that it can create one using words that were most commonly used.