Wordle.com

I cannot begin to tell you how much I LOVE this website thanks to my colleague Deirdre who introduced me to it! I seriously think she should have a blog since I have gotten so many of my ideas from her! Wordle.com can be used throughout different content areas. It basically generates words into a collage.

Here is how I have used it:

• To create a writing cover for their writing scrapbooks. They make a list of words and phrases that relate to writing.
• Create an "autobiography collage" about themselves.
• Every year I make one with all the names of my students and frame it. I place it by the entrance of my door.
• When we studied "Diversity of Life" in science, I had my students make a list of all the academic vocabulary words they could think of. They used their science notebooks as a resource.