Wednesday, September 16, 2009

fun with Wordle




This word cloud was made using Wordle, an online interactive word art tool. Word clouds are a fun and easy way to visually represent main ideas and can be used as brainstorming tools and presentation visuals, among other things. Check out the article Top 20 Uses of Wordle by Rodd Lucier for some fun suggestions about how you can use Wordle in your class.

1 comment:

Emily said...

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1134932/writing_classroom_resources

Above is a link to a larger (more legible) version of this word cloud.

ZOMBIE GRAMMAR - because I laugh in the face of semicolons

A Vague Death (about vague pronoun use)
Death by Fragment (about sentence fragments)
Too Much Death (about homonyms)
Nondescript Demise (about descriptive language)
Shifty Business (about verb tense agreement)
Double Death (about double negatives)
A Plural Passing (about subject-verb agreement)
A Fowl Run-on (about run-on sentences)
A Misplaced Mortality (about misplaced modifiers)
A Mixed-up Extermination (about prepositions)
Apostrophe Catastrophe (about correct use of apostrophes)

A Mixed-up Extermination

 
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