Wordle (week 7)

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This is the website resource: http://www.wordle.net/       



Introduction
This website eventually makes teaching and learning in the second language more easy and fun.This technology is suitable for all levels of students.This website brings in the idea of ''word cloud'' which teachers can create from a text that they want to use in teaching. This  clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Indeed, teachers and students can adjust their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images teachers and students create with Wordle are   used according to their own taste!. Once the clouds are done they can print them out!


Instructions

How do teachers and students go about using this website??? Don't worry just press the video demonstration below:


I hope this video can assist teachers and students in exploring and using this website.

Additionally there is also an example video below:



The advantages gained from this website are:
  1. can be used for pre-reading activities
  2. it is free
  3. the word clouds are attractive and may stimulate visual learners
  4. knowing key words are a great method to support students language fluency rather than just having students simply reading a text
  5. its interesting compared to other websites since students and teachers can customise the design and choose colours and fonts according to their taste.
  6. the clouds can be printed!

The disadvantages of using this website are:
  1. it needs a java player!




Recommendations

Teachers can use this website as a tool for pre-reading activity in order to activate students schemata about the upcoming text. Teachers can also use this tool for revision activity, dialogue reconstruction activities, summary, creating short poems like Haiku, prediction activities, text comparison activities, collect students personal informations and introducing a topic or subject in classroom On the other hand, learners can use it for learner training since students can make notes of the texts they study and pin them up to revise them or keep them in their gallery on the site.Learners can also use this website to create cover pages for papers or folios. Learners can also use this website to identify words they overused in their writing which helps them to avoid repetition in their writing.

Below is a video example on how 'Wordle' is used in a Literature lesson.


A COLLECTION OF WORD CLOUDS!









Referencesforthepicturesis:Wordle.com
Referencesforthevideosare:
1)USGS.COM
2)BenMeddyoutubechannel

                    


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