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WORDLE IT!

Wordle is an application that generates word clouds which are pictures made of words connected with each other because of their significance with one another. You can enter your own word clouds composition or ‘copy & paste’ a documenet about a topic, and Wordle will create the pictures words known as word clouds. It’s a great tool to practice in the educational settings because it helps to summarize key ideas. I personally also believe that Wordle promotes collaborative thinking inside the classroom for individual or in groups.

Advantages:

1. Wordle can be customize in size, fonts, color, and the fun part, shapes!
2. Creating word clouds is super fast. Very convenient!
3. Students can easily understand lessons using wordle as it creates the main ideas or words on a specific lesson or topic
4. It’s a entertaining and engaging way to introduce a lesson or providing activities among students

Disadvantages:

1. Wordle is a web 2.0 application; So, additional safety precautions maybe needed when a student uses this application.
2. Wordle does not save the word cloud you’ve created for your file or on your computer. One has to find a way to save word clouds like printscreen and crop, or you may also want to try screenshot end-product. This is one thing that the creator of Wordle needs to embed in the application.
3. One has to have a supported browser that allows Javascript to run. Java is programming language and computing platform which Wordle needs to generate its word clouds.

HOW TO CREATE WORD CLOUDS IN WORDLE

Below is my first wordle word cloud. :) 

Thank you! Until next time! :)

Keep Calm & Pin On!

    Pinterest is a media platform termed by it’s own founder and CEO as “catalog of ideas”. Registered (a must) users can upload pins (images, link articles, and videos) and compile them as collections known as pinboards. Everything else can be personalized and everyone can interact with other registered members. This is an amazing, useful tool for teachers and students to gather ideas for instructional learning designs and concepts. Share your awesome classroom ideas, too!

Advantages:

1. Pin anything from the web like articles, blogs, images, videos, etc. You can get just about anything from this media!

2. Pinterest has a built-in search engine boost. When you create a board of your interest, Pinterest will automatically boost your search engine result listings.

3. Everything is visually presented. This way if you’re a teacher, it brings excitement and interest in the learning part of the students.

4. Pinterest users are mostly women (65%). Women have amazing and unique ideas they share everyday. This is a great opportunity for us teachers (who are also mostly teachers) and students to find the best ideas in the web.

Disadvantages:

I only have one disadvantage about using Pinterest. There has been some copyright issues because of others’ posting others’ images. Since teachers loves(ssss) to get their teaching ideas online, we just have to be a little careful about pinning others’ images, videos, or articles. 

How To Create a Pinterest Board

Here is one of my Pinterest Board I've just recently created. April's Pinterest Board