RSS

Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Post Icon

Using WORDLE in the classroom

Many of you may have already discovered this web site already, but for those who haven't, don't forget to check out Wordle!
I have been experimenting with wordle  lately and I  like this tool!Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.


How to use Wordle?


Alternatives

1.Tagxedo - Creator

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Example:
2.WordItOut
WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!



•Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator

◦Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables.

◦Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.

◦Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!

•Keep control of your word clouds

◦Share your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)

◦Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)

◦Download your own copy as an image file

◦Get any word cloud as a present or gift on a T-shirt, card or more...
 
Example:


3.Wordsift
 
Create your own tag cloud to visualize your text.
 

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Post Icon

Storybird

What’s Storybird?
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people author a Storybird—one with words, one with pictures—and then share it with their network.


The final product can be printed (coming soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.

Storybird-is an excellent tool for teachers.They can encourage their pupils to create and share their own stories. Pupils will improve their reading , writing skills.



 
Creating, sharing, and reading Storybird stories is free.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS