Monday, November 21, 2011

WORDLE & WORDSIFT

What are they????

Wordle





Both wordle and wordsift are great tools that could distill a long complicated text into a visual representation for text data. In simple the tools grabs the most important and frequent word used in the text and organise it in a way that people could predict what the long text is actually about. Like in the example below it automatically exagerates the important words by making it much bigger that the rest of the less important words.


How to use it?
Copy and paste the text in the box provided. click submit and choose the style, layout, font and the color that you want your visual to be.





Some extra things in wordsift:
1) You can sort the word from commonly use to rarely used as well as the opposite.

2)The tool links with a thesaurus and grabs pictures that is associated with the word.




3)It gives examples on how to used the word portrayed in the text.





Is it a great tool in the classroom?

Yes!!!
1) The tool can be used as a medium for teachers to create a pre- reading activity for the students to activate thier schemata and get the gist out of it.

2)Encaurage students to communicate between each other while discussing and predicting what might come in the text.

3)The visuals by wordle can be used as a guidance for students to get the important features that should be included in thier own version of stories.


The good points of wordle &wordsift
  • Its free and everyone can use it
  • Its colorful, fun, and exciting to be used
  • It motivates students to be more creative cognitively 
  • It grabs the students attention for the next flow of the lesson and make them more engage with the topic.
  • It promotes interactive communication between students and even teachers.
  • The product can be printed out.
  • Great for teachers to quickly identify the main context of the text or even choose some pictures or even videos that could be associated with the text. 
  • Suitable to be used for any languages and any text. 

    Some negative points for wordle and wordsift:
    • The pictures in wordsift are sometimes not usable 
    • need internet connection
       
       

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