Oh my gosh! Thanks a lot, Caroline! I am spending hours with this assignment...love it!
I explored a lot of these (and am still exploring them! I created two "word art" pieces using Wordle.
This was just an idea...kind of (well, really is...) a religious theme...I just wondered what would happen when I put in all the text from the "Welcome to Our Quaker Meeting" brochure. Neat, huh?
I also created a photo of my Dad and my middle son using BeFunky...and of Jeremy, my oldest son:
As to Educational Implications:
(A) Wordle can be used to take a play and see if common words (and thus, themes) "pop-out" for students.
(B) In the Foreign Language class, dialogs could be used to create a "Wordle", then students (with the original dialog in front of them) have to use the Wordle to recreate conversations using the words before them!
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Wordle is truly addicting! I've used it with historic documents, student rosters, poem/song lyrics, family names, etc. (some with students - some just for me). I love your dialog idea - how creative :) Building on that idea, teachers could "wordle" test content and have students recall/restate key concepts as a review.
ReplyDeleteThe photo is really cool! I've never used BeFunky, but will certainly have to check it out now.