Sunday, January 18, 2015

Playing with Word Clouds



First word cloud of 'The Heart-Winners

I am extremely HAPPY! I just made my own word clouds! 
I really hope you feel the same elation after learning something new: Something FUN. 

Well, I was still up at midnight, trying to look for other possible sites that would help me to make this fun words. I am so thankful for two blogs I visited last night. They provided valuable information and links to follow and to give it a try. 

Blog 21st Century Edtech is a great blog which provides different ways to use word clouds in the classroom, for any subjects. For a brand new user of word clouds like me, it is important to know how to use it in my class with my students. Therefore, this information is really helpful! I will return to this site again! 

But then I found a list of free words cloud generators that teachers can use for absolutely FREE! 
There are several and I had tried them all last night. Smile. I visited Wordle first. It is very easy and no need to sign-up. Just create. I really wanted to create the word clouds on Wordle but after I was ready to create them, it didn't work. However, please make sure that you have Java(TM).

Another great site is Tagul. It's super easy but you need to sign-up first. Well, here's my second word clouds made on this site (including my Heart-winners up there!): 

My Word Clouds on Jobs designed for my El-3 class





Word Clouds on 'Things in the House' for El-2 class 

So, tell me what you think?!
I am so happy and I also think of helping my students to do their own word clouds to review our lesson about 'Personal Information'. I am sure it will be FUN!

Have a great day, everybody! Motivate more people, Win more hearts today!