Group+2

Members of Group:
Rebecca Currin Casey Sarles

Name of Tool:
Wordle

Does tool require Sign-in?
No

Description of Tool:
You type a variety of words, paste a URL, or, Enter a del.icio.us user name, in the appropriate box and click "Go" or "Submit" Wordle will then generate a image of the words from what you typed in, the URL or del.icio.us tags. The words that appear the most will be the largest, those that appear the least will be smallest.

How does tool apply to your curricular area?
Getting to know students. Make a Wordle of student's favorite subjects, learning styles, areas of math in which they'd like more help, or in viewing statistics. With the statistics, instead of a bar graph, the objects or numbers will be depicted as being large or small depending on the frequency. You can even calculate the validity of Wordle by counting words and seeing if they match the size of the word in the Wordle output. Wordle can be used as guesswork. Text from a concept can be pasted and the students have to guess what concept it is portraying based on the frequency of the words.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
Creating because you are making a picture and analyzing so that the students can draw conclusions based on the frequency of words or objects.

Extras:
Video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL5D9nz5aI

Lessons http://lessonopoly.org/node/11398 http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/58905.aspx