Hi, Pat,
I have been using wordle to make signs for the ends of our stacks to give
our middle school students a quick idea of which authors' books they'll find
there. The names of authors with more titles are entered more times, making
their names appear bigger.
I'm reading Center field, by Robert Lipsyte.
Best regards,
Martin Swist
スイスト せんせい,
mswist@asij.ac.jp
Middle School LMS
http://tinyurl.com/yjl7fve <-click here for MS video book talks or if you
like oatmeal
The American School In Japan
1-1-1 Nomizu, Chofu-shi, Tokyo
"The heart is a little to the left." (Rev.) William Sloane Coffin
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Pat Elliott <pat.elliott@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hello LM_NETTERS,
> A teacher in our area wanted to know the name of this site. So I put these
> thought together for our tl listserv and I thought I would pass this on to
> this group too. I hope that it is useful.
>
> Many of you know the Wordle site- a word cloud site.
> http://www.wordle.net/
>
> A useful hint. To have words stay together that you want together such as
> North America- you must put a tilde between the words - no spaces e.g.,
> North~America The tilde mark is the upper case mark on the key beside the
> numeral 1. You can link more than two words.
>
> It is a great way for you to assess kids' understanding after a unit by
> this
> being printed as a title page instead of the somewhat useless exercise of
> having them do title pages at the beginning of the unit.
>
> I n a literacy lesson in the library I modeled the use of Wordle to the
> grade 8s last year by having them brainstorm what they knew about Sir
> Wilfrid Laurier (a former Canadian Prime Minister for our non-Canadian
> friends) after they had just finished learning about him. They then were
> responsible for adding a similar list/Wordle about their personal study of
> a history topic in that era to their wiki page.
>
> Another hint is to have them list the words in MSWord first. They then can
> copy and then paste the words as many times indicating the important
> concepts with more times repeated. The more times repeated the bigger the
> words get in the Wordle program. This was modeled with the Sir Wilfrid
> Laurier example. As a group we had to think critically to determine the
> level of importance of the items to the list once it was created. Then copy
> the list into Wordle-- this allows for perfect spelling as well. If you
> added what you type directly into Wordle and then find a mistake, you will
> have to type it all over again. And we do know how patient intermediate
> students are.
>
> The grade 8s used this as a page for their section of the yearbook this
> year. They listed all of the things that were important to them that year.
> It was a nice summary of what was important to them.
>
> I am thinking out loud right now-- This could be a good exercise for the
> start of the new year to do with classes to introduce Wordle in the reverse
> of what our grade 8s did-- Ask the students "What do you expect from being
> in Grade _? or "What do you feel like on your first day of Grade __? Do
> the
> modelling, print and give to the teacher as a preassessment of the group.
> Primary students might list 10 things that are important to them, or a
> meaningful topic for discussion.
>
> This covers: a modelled lesson, content are topic, diagnostic or formative
> assessment, critical thinking, and intro to a valid use of Information
> Technology.
>
> Pat Elliott
> Teacher-Librarian
> Hewitt's Creek P.S.
> Barrie, ON Canada
>
>
>
>
>
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