If you're a teacher who deals with vocabulary (and what teacher doesn't deal with vocabulary?), you're gonna love this web site! At Wordle.net, you can paste text that you're teaching, and the site will determine the keywords and will arrange them into a really neat, eye-catching graphic. You can also just type in a list of words that you want students to explore, and it will arrange them in a dazzling graphic. If you don't like the way they mix the words, click on "random" and it will continue to give you different configuration, colors and fonts, or you can customize your own. How can you use this? 1) Prior to studying a unit, flash the list on your SmartBoard or print the list for students. Give them time to discuss and make predictions about what they'll be studying. 2) After studying, give students the graphic of keywords and ask them to use it to write a summary of the unit. Or, 3) Let your students create their own Wordle from what they think are the key words in your unit. You're gonna love this site! Let me know how you use it!
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