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Featured in January 2010 show.



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50 Ways to Use Wordle

1. Use the comment tag cloud in LibraryThing to introduce a class novel. 2. Create a poster of LibraryThing Wordle and refer to it during the novel unit. 3. After reading a class novel, have students do a reflective writing and create a Wordle from the words they use in their writing. 4. Use digitized copies of books from googlebooks to create a Wordle. Have students analyze the Wordle and predict what they will find in the book. 5. Use Project Gutenberg with Wordle to preteach/preview text. 6. Use the Wordle as a prompt for reflective writing. 7. Any RSS feed can be put into a Wordle. 8. Compare political websites. The Boston Globe compared the two presidential candidate’s websites and found very interesting results. 9. Use Wordle on your blog. Analyze what you are writing about. 10. Have students analyze what they are writing about. Wordle will highlight their top words. 11. Use Wordle in test review. 12. Use Wordle to analyze what has been covered most during the school year. 13. Wordle your delicious tag cloud. 14. Use Wordle as an idea generator. 15. Use Wordle to prep for college admissions essays. 16. Print Wordle for student use. 17. Current events. Call up a news page such as google news and create a Wordle. Have students discuss what it means. 18. Use the RSS feed from a news source to create a daily news Wordle. 19. Use your daily news Wordle to prompt research on the news. 20. On your news Wordle, have students highlight terms and try to find a relationship between words. 21. Have students create sentences from the terms in Wordle and research to see if they are correct. 22. Use Wordle as a final project. Have students create the Wordle and explain it to the class. 23. Have students plug their writing into Wordle and analyze their word choice. 24. Students can make sure they are on topic by putting papers in Wordle and viewing the results. 25. Create a student interest cloud. 26. Use Wordle in vocabulary lessons. 27. Have students create a Wordle on a subject by each contributing 3-4 words. 28. Plug in key thoughts into Wordle as a reflection activity. 29. Wordle your blog - reflection on class blog year. 30. Use Wordle to introduce new subjects. 31. Use Wordle for brainstorming. Have whole class contribute and then use the Wordle during the lesson. 32. Have students use Wordle during writing revision. 33. Analyze student’s overuse of words in essays. 34. Analyze your overuse of words in writings. 35. Use Wordle to create book posters. 36. Create concrete poetry. 37. Use as a visual booktalk. 38. Use Wordle in storytelling. 39. Use in chapter review. 40. Use Wordle in creative writing review. 41. Compare writings using Wordle. 42. Analyze song lyrics. 43. Wordle your dissertation. 44. Use Wordle to compare introductions to summaries. 45. Use Wordle to track student word choice. 46. Create art. 47. Wordle your school mission. 48. Use with ELL students to analyze word choice. 49. Create a class Wordle to represent your class. 50. Use Wordle just for fun.