Comments on: Embedding Wordles Into Blog Posts

By: Tara Seale

Tara Seale — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:01:14 +0000

Okay - my link did not work, so I will try again. Class Wiki Page

By: Tara Seale

Tara Seale — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:58:39 +0000

Thank you for writing up your wonderful Wordle directions.
I have recently written a Wordle lesson focusing on themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. You can view my lesson at my Class Wiki Page.

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:06:38 +0000

@murcha Thanks for letting us know how you get your students to attribute.

@Mrs Cunningham Good luck with using Wordles with your studnets.

@Robert The more I use Wordle the more I’m impressed with the different opportunities of how you could use it. Had a good chuckle about Obama being the most common word used on both blogs.

@Tony I think it is excellent for those new to Web 2.0 because it is very simple to use and quite easy to be creative.

@dargan Not sure what the issue is but if you do use Jing perhaps you can take a screencast of what is happening so I could have a look?

@Gail (poulingail) Totally agree – Wordle definitely runs away with you regarding all the different opportunities to use. Let me know how you go using it with your students.

By: poulingail

poulingail — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:40 +0000

I would like to create one for each of my students to go along with a photo of them. It will be a clever way of getting to know each other’s personalities and interests.
We can also make one up describing our class and the learning that’s going on each month. It can be a reflection of our thoughts and ideas. I like the idea that the more times a word is used, the bigger it shows up so when the kids repeat answers, it still counts.
My mind is starting to run away with ideas but that’s what Wordle does to you.
Gail

By: dargan

dargan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:03:03 +0000

Thanks Sue,
Still not working.
I’m currently using firefox. I will keep trying maybe I’ll try using Jing instead. Thanks

By: dargan

dargan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:38:32 +0000

I really loved the woodles site but I’m new to this blogging stuff and have captured, cropped saved to my pictures file and tried to upload into my about post but it doesn’t work. Ive uploaded the new version of flash player but it still doesn’r appear what am I NOT doing? HELP please.
By the way great stuff on your site.

I had a thought, if I can ever make it easy to upload files for my grade 6 students…..I have a way to use woodles and make sure that I know what words my students need to use spellchecker, I have them copy and paste spellchecked words into a word document, woodle it and then they have their funky new spelling words for the day/week etc.

If you could give me some advice on uploading into edublogs that would be great, I have no problem with my facebook site!!!!

http://dargan.edublogs.org/

By: Tony Searl

Tony Searl — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:58:14 +0000

Amazing power of small wordles in my posts is other adult learners I work with want to see if they get a mention, so they go and read the original wordle. Weird, but it is a good intro for learners new to web2.0, plus it is fun and simple.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:45:22 +0000

I also blogged about this Web 2.0 tool after the Boston Globe ran a story in their Ideas section (8/3/08) about using the tool to analyze the presidential candidate’s blogs. Wordle can engage the visual/spatial learner who might otherwise tune out when presented with an assignment that consists of comparing two essays with different points of view. I also like that we are teaching students an information processing skill that can lead to critical thinking. “What did you predict? What do you think this Wordle represents?”

http://neotechlearning.edublogs.org/2008/08/08/visualize-your-text-with-wordle/