Using Wordle to Enhance a Geography Lesson

What is a Wordle?

     A Wordle is a word cloud that is computer generated. You can put any form of text into the program to create a cloud. You can vary these clouds by color, text, layout, and language. Wordles take your text and uses the most frequent words to create prominence within the cloud.  http://www.wordle.net/

How to Create a Wordle:

Examples of Wordles:

Animals

Technology Syllabus

Psychology Homework 

Uses for Wordle in the Geography Classroom: 

• Foreign Language: Students can put any type of language into a Wordle. This could be used to introduce a new topic.

• KWL Chart: Three seperate clouds would be created to explain, What a student Knows, what a student Wants to know, and what a students Learned. These would be used as pre-assessment, formative assesment and post-assesment. 

•  Create Data: Can be used as a pictograph. This will incorporate Math with the Wordle.

•  Assessment:Students create a Wordle to identify all of the main features of the content they are learning.

Uses for Wordle in the Classroom:

http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/58905.aspx

 http://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html

 http://languagesresources.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/23-ways-to-use-wordle-in-the-mfl-classroom/

http://issuu.com/ugaetc/docs/thirty_eight_interesting_ways_to_use_wordle_i