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 * R**[[image:etechtransformingeducation:Week2Imagewcredit.jpg width="276" height="270" align="right"]]After you have experienced creating a WORDLE, post a comment about anything you have observed about Wordle or your ideas for how you might use it instructionally. See the examples provided below. When you are ready to post your thoughts about Wordle, remember to click on **EDIT THIS PAGE **at the top right, then click in the next available row in the table to type your name and your one sentence idea or thought about Wordle.

Wilson Middle School ||  ||< Language Arts- use this to present a book discussion. Students could include main characters, setting, important events, theme, references to the plot, character descriptions,conflict, resolution and etc. All of this would be dependent on grade level. At times, I prefer students to use this tool for presentations instead of using a PowerPoint. They only list key concepts and this prevents word for word reading. Overall, I observe that the students displayed a better grasp of the topic and had practiced their presentation. Social Studies..during Black Studies Month studying the Civil Rights movement. We as a class created a wordle poster with words we felt were important and descriptive to this topic. Great way to introduce new vocabulary and evokes discussion. Brainstorming: Divide the students into groups to collaborative on any topic..use the groups ideas to evoke discussion, (share your thinking), of which words should be included on a final class poster of the topic.Why did you include this word or phrase? Why is that word/ phrase important to the topic? I presented an IVDL program entitled "One Small Hero Ruby Bridges" to several schools all over the United States. At the end of the program, one activity was that each class created a poster of words that described Ruby. The students were able to actually see how to create one as well as the finished product.The completed poster was then posted. The students loved this! I received several emails from teachers reporting their students wanted to create their own posters. || Kenton Middle School ||  ||< I would use Wordle to create a visual of strong nouns and verbs, describe the setting of a story, describe a character, create poetry, create a vocabulary list, copy and paste text from biased material or propaganda, and use as a tool for informal writing. || Newark ||  ||< I think Wordle looks like slick advertising copy and I can see using it with a group to brainstorm or individually to set priorities; then when merged, the top priorities would repeat. || Kenton MS ||  ||< I can see after students have solved/researched a problem in math class and written their papers that they can then use wordle to check for overused words. It is very appealing. || Westland/ South-Western ||  || I like creating my own wordle filled with words that would richly describe a novel that I am about to introduce and have students view the wordle and make guesses about what the novel will explore. This could be cool to use this site as an anticipatory activity for any course-- biology, freshmen mentoring, career exploration, vocabulary || Ashland City ||  || I think Wordle can be used with the staff as a summary to provide their thoughts about a particular professional development topic or district goal. I think having to try to synthesize their thoughts into one word is a great skill. I think they could also share their clouds with each other or parents in a concept they might actually try to read! :) || Westland High School SWCS ||  || I loved the Wordle, I created my own almost immediately. However, the wordles I created were based on my interests, not on my content area ..... MATH. I thought about copying and pasting OGT directions/word problems which would highlight key directions (explain, justify), or vocabulary from a chapter, but the important math vocabulary changes based on the material/content/context, so I am not sure if I really love that idea yet. I could use a wordle to post student/teacher behavior expectations, highlighting terms such as listening, respect, ect..I found it hard to apply it to math, but I know eventually I will find a great use for such an unique and powerful tool. ||
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 * < ===**Participant Name** === ||  ||< ===**Ideas about using a Web 2.0 Technology like Wordle** === ||
 * < Donna Pepper ||  ||< I like the way words that I have used more than once appear larger since it helps me get a visual of the "big ideas" in my writing. ||
 * < Cheryl Ward ||  ||< Paste in the content of a famous speech and see if students know the speech, study the words used most frequently, is that why the speech was famous? ||
 * < Mark Kryling ||  ||< I imagine using this to display the Bill of Rights individually around the room, and see if students can identify these by the key words they read. ||
 * < Ann Hinkle ||  ||< For me, the artistic way words are displayed is like a big invitation which "invites" students to try it too!!! It's like a playground of endless ways for young adults to express themselves or receive information being deliver by way of this media. ||
 * < Luke Burton ||  ||< I love to show bias in the media in regard to scientific principles, theories, and events. The Gulf oil leak would be a great opportunity for students to analyze bias if it exists in a news article. One possible assignment might be to find 5 recent news articles reporting on the leak and Wordle them and then analyze the findings. I wonder what word patterns might emerge? Should we believe everything we read? Is the author trying to persuade you to believe something or is he reporting only the facts? Critical thinking at it's best. ||
 * < Amy Wood ||  ||< After students have written an essay or a character sketch they could paste the text in Wordle to look at recurring themes or characteristics. It may be good to help students reflect as they are working on an essay. Were there some words they used too often? Did they leave out main points they initially intended to make? Then revise. ||
 * < Jennifer Staten ||  ||< Science: I could see posting text from each chapter around the room. Do the students know what the words mean (especially the bigger ones?) It'd also be a great "quick review" before a test to remind them what it'll be over! ||
 * < Jane Galbraith
 * < Shana Stout
 * < Katherine Ward
 * < Kyle Lacy/GMS ||  ||< I think this would be a great tool for Social Studies a discussion class to see how words are used to become persuasive or show importance. As for my classroom I would maybe use this to introduce vocabulary in different sections to show how the different math terms build on each other and continue to appear throughout the book because the size of the words in the Wordle. ||
 * Tonya Bruni/ Glenwood ||  || The student council @ Glenwood already used this program to create locker decorations for OAA week which came out pretty cool. They had listed things the kids had learned druing the previous weeks to keep them focused on the test. In the language arts classroom, I think it would be cool to have the kids create a Wordle listing character traits and have the class try to sort them under thecharacters' names. This would be a good way to see if they get character traits & can link them to the correct character in the passage. ||
 * < Cheryl Wartenbee ||  ||< I like the idea of pasting the chapter content and creating a Wordle of the most commonly used words as an introduction to the chapter. If I put it up in the room as a poster, I can frequently draw the students attention to the words in it as we talk about them. Now, where do I find the chapter content so that I can cut and paste it? ||
 * < John Davis/Newark ||  ||< To me it seems to be a more modern form of a web. Being visual learners.... students would be able to see important terms in a more animated/cartoonish/commercialized medium. It does appeas to me to be more appealing. Again,a more futuristic way of reaching our intended audience......STUDENTS!!!! ||
 * < Diane Lewis ||  ||< I tried a quick version yesterday in Language Arts class. The students watched me type a list of seemingly random words, then submit. The Wordle appeared on the projector screen and the students had to quickly identify the part of speech represented by the list of words. I can think of many other uses in my two subject areas--langauge arts and social studies: anticipation guide for a new novel or unit, sponge activity for class opener, a quick filler like I used yesterday to assess skills. The students enjoyed creating their own as well. ||
 * Jason Ross/Newark ||  || I like how visual wordle is, but if I am being 100% honest, I don't think it is anything special. Maybe I am just not getting it, but it seems that it makes words bigger that are used more? I don't know I will try to use this in my classroom next year, but someone far brighter than myself will have to show me how this will help kids retain words. I can see wordle being used as an anticipation guide for reading and even for science, but I don't really know how I would use this in my math classroom. I guess in my mind I can and have made things like this in word, so I guess I was thinking this wordle would be phenomenal like voicethread. I hope this post is not coming off as negative, I truly do not want it to be. I will read everyone else posts and see what I can learn from them I have not yet read anyone post becuase I do not want to be influenced by it before I typed this. ||
 * < Lee Bach ||  ||< Wordle is a very neat application. My curiosity lead me to type in the three big news channels to see just how they compared. It's very interesting. ||
 * < Jamie Bartlett
 * < Bob Toney/Sandusky ||  ||< I was first impressed with how easy the application allows someone to create a Wordle. It made me want to create my own. I typed in a couple of my favorite steeler news website and quickly realized how much time and energy is spent on Ben Rothlisberger. ||
 * Ellen Higgenbotham/Sandusky ||  || Wordle is a neat way of looking at an important message and watching all the important words highlighted and reconfigured. I like the idea of using it for comparing resources! ||
 * Traci Harris ||  || wordle is a great way to introduce vocabulary as part of a class discussion. ||
 * John Weddendorf/Westland HS ||  || As an English, speech, and drama teacher wordle has many great aplications. Cutting and pasting sections of a novel or play and examining frequent words in relation to motifs or themes would be one application. Examining famous speeches (as someone else has mentined) for frequent words and messages would be a great application. Clippings from newspaper or magazine articles and identifying word choices and media biasness would be another interesting approach. ||
 * Alan Narovec/Newark ||  || I like the idea of looking at a section of text to identify the main words/ideas. After doing research students could use wordle to create a title page. ||
 * Jan McCreary/KMS ||  || I like the way that important, thought provoking words jump out at me. It seems to be an alternative representation of a web. What a great way to highlight important text in stories and discuss and learn new vocabulary. This would also work with vocabulary development in all of the content areas. ||
 * Kerri Terman
 * Neil Gupta
 * Eric Dysert - Glenwood MS ||  || I really liked Wordle. I think that it is a great way to summarize what the students need to know. It would be a cool way to show some vocab to the kids or even for me to introduce new topics in a unique way. I could certainly show the order of importance of things using wordle and also help the students develop the necessary vocabulary for the current lesson, and how it relates to past and future lessons. ||
 * Sarah Pfeifer
 * Doris/Ashland ||  || I can see using Wordle in all aspects of teaching English 8. For example, I do a short story unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Students could make Wordles based on the short stories that we read. They can summarize the plot and analyze the characters using Wordles. ||
 * James Deppen/ Ashland MS ||  || As a review exercise for a unit of study- students will write one sentence about a concept from the unit; then use a giant merge of their individual concepts to analyze which concepts were identified most often and discuss why those concepts were and other concepts were not. ||
 * Mark Shively- Glenwood M.S. ||  || I can really see using Wordle in the science classroom to see if students are truely getting the vocabulary by concept in having the students write specifically about lesson at hand and see how often and BIG the key words come up to evaluate (formativelly again) if the students not only get the concept but are also able to incorporate the vocabulary into their schema of knowledge. I prefer the idea to having kids create instead of reproducing wordles from previous documents. I can easily recreate a document and have a class discussion, I wanna see what is clicking or not clicking in those little heads! =) ||
 * susan lundy FHHS ||  || wow i really liked how some people are thinking of using their wordle....i loved the program but was having a hard time thinking of how to use it. Jen I love copy and past chapter text. Love posting around room, kind of like a wall border. I got how I can use but how can the kids use it? ||
 * Rob Adams- Franklin Heights HS ||  || Science naturally has foreign vocabulary imbedded in the study, so using wordle could be great way for students to be reminded of key terms before an exam. I always like to go over presenting styles with my students where the just dont read off of a powerpoint slide. Perhaps a wordle on the screen could give them a reminder of words and they can talk about them without reading directly off a powerpoint ||
 * Jared Manns - Kenton Middle School ||  || I can see "wordle" being used to expose bias in scientific studies. Students could review articles about evolutionary theory and use "Wordle" to determine main ideas and/or bias that is shown. ||
 * Laurie Maurer/Ashland ||  || Prior to Algebra I Final Exam, the students can use wordle as a way of reviewing terms they are exposed to all year. Pairs of students can create a wordle page and then randomly select terms on which to drill each other.

I can see wordle used primarily as an alternative to a traditional "word bank." ||
 * Sue Becker - Glenwood MS Findlay ||  || From a creative point of view... I like having the students see the words and patterns from multiple view points. What a fantastic way for students to see common threads of words in new and unique patterns, colors and formats. Group discussions on patterns and styles could be done on the most effective Wordle for a particular graphic tool or digital project. There is so much with the fine arts that could be discussed and taught using these wordle pages. ||
 * Ron Meyer-Franklin Heights ||  || Students in poverty come to us with half the vocabulary and wordle could be used as a learning tool to increase the vocab of these students. ||
 * Brian Kettering - Ashland

Ryan Ludwig- Kenton ||  || A wordle could be used as an introduction to a unit highlighting key concepts that will be covered.

I like how it creates different sizes and shapes of letters to help introduce new concepts that will be learned during the lesson || FHHS southwestern ||  || I use word walls a great deal in my classroom. This would be a great way to create a creative word wall. I admit that it is not a tool I would spend a great deal of time on in the classroom. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Bernadine Weddington - Newark High School ||  || I am not sure how I would use this. My only idea is to create a poster with unit vocabulary to post in the classroom to peak student curiosity. ||
 * Mary Anne Lenhart/Sandusky ||  || I can visualize the use of Wordle for mastery of vocabulary in reading. As new stories are read, a Wordle could be created for each vocabulary word by an assigned group to each new word. Synonyms and defining phrases could by added to the Wordle to define the word. Then a presentation could be done by groups to explain the vocabulary word using the Wordle product via the SmartBoard in a collaborative PowerPoint presentation. What a colorful, creative visual way to help students increase their vocabulary! For parts of speech, Wordles could be created for nouns,verbs,adjectives, etc. Many, many ways to use a Wordle. ||
 * David Alvarado - Glenwood M.S. ||  || I can see using Wordle as a way to check for understanding of vocabulary, as well as, a way for students to be creative. I could envision a Math teacher using Wordle to check for student understanding of "Polygons" and then breaking it down to "Quadrilaterals" and to "Rectangles, Squares, etc." ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Clarissa Furlong

Newark High School || I had some students who created something similar to a wordle several years ago-by hand- and we termed it a "word cloud" In literature using a wordle as a character study works very well, whether it is for just one character or by using specific categories to compare characters in a story or across stories. ||
 * Kim O'Dell
 * Robert Boggs Franklin Heights || I have not seen this before but can see that there are a number of areas where this could used. I think that students could copy and paste lab reports or research projects into and check and see what words they are using the most. Often students will use certain words over and over and this could help improve their writing skills. ||

Westland HS SWCS || I have not seen teachers use wordles but I love the examples. I think teachers could use them to really help students with creativity and also to help with OGT vocabulary skills. || Westland HS SWCS || I liked the look of the wordle after I created it. It was striking how some words popped out. I would like to have students list all the equations that they know that contain pi and see the results. This could be a fun and educational activity for "pi day." ||
 * Kathryn Buckerfield
 * Maura Horgan - Newark High School || Wordle is a great visual for any ideas, words, concepts...for anyone in a learning situation. I gan see this being utilized in staff development meetings when discussing mission statements and purpose. In the same ways students would being engaged as common threads appear, staff would also be able to visualize goals. It would be a great ways to "show" goals especially starting with department goals leading into building goals. ||
 * Kathy Gadomski
 * Melissa Phillips Sandusky || I like the examples provided in the gallery. The different color schemes and layouts illustrate how students could use this and make it their own based on their individual style. This could be used to introduce vocabulary, review vocabulary or other concepts, brainstorming, etc. ||