Interesting ways to….use Wordles

Some quick ideas from practising teachers, collated by Tom Barrett, about how to use Wordle in your classroom. Most of them can be adapted for primary or secondary pupils.

Recycling

This was an idea from Cidalia Marques from Portugal. We have this year a project called our school built from paper. Children collect paper to recycle and do a few tasks. They decorate the paper collecters (also recycled) and distribute them in the school services. One will be responsable to get them once a week. Full Article…

Prezi

So you thought an interactive whiteboard was just a whiteboard?

Emoticons for evaluation

One of the things I have done is to get kids to use emoticons (smileys) as evaluation tools – especially useful for commenting on a piece of work they have completed or just for recording how they feel about school each day. (happy, sad, tired, ‘cool’, angry, worried etc). There is so much emphasis on Full Article…