Wordle, Wordsift, Tagul

1. WORD CLOUDS
WORDLE & WORSIFT & TAGUL
IŞIL BOY

2. WORDLE
* Word Cloud Generator

3. HOW 2.0 USE WORDLE WITH YOUR
STUDENTS
 Turn a text or poem into a word poster.
 Show the word cloud for the reading text and let your
students guess what the text is about.
 Do brainstorming with your students, then copy the
results to the wordle.
 Compare and contrast the word clouds of your students'
essays.
 Ask your students embed their word clouds into your class
wiki.
http://www.wordle.net

4. WORDLE: OFFLINE ACTIVITIES
 Take a screenshot of your word cloud
and download it onto your desktop.
 Ask your students print out their word
clouds and bring them to the
classroom.

5. WORDSIFT developed by Stanford University
 Word Cloud
 Images
 Videos
 Visual Thesaurus
 Videos
 Examples from Source
http://www.wordsift.com

7. HOW 2.0 USE WORDSIFT WITH
YOUR STUDENTS- 1
 Copy the reading text you are planning to use with your
students and ask them if they can guess what the text is
about.
 Let your students identify the academic words in the
cloud, then click AWL option, and check their answers.
 Use Visual Thesaurus to discuss the related words with
your students.
 Ask your students click “create workspace” and write an
essay by dragging the words from the word cloud.

8. HOW 2.0 USE WORDSIFT WITH
YOUR STUDENTS- 2
 Have your students sift the text instead of skimming it
 Divide your students into groups of three. Click on the
unfamiliar words to show the images related to those
words, and ask them to guess their meanings.
 Use wordsift to identify the key vocabulary.
 Let your students watch the videos on the wordsift
website and ask them write a summary.
 Show your students “Examples from Source” part and ask
them rewrite the sentences.

10. TAGUL: Gorgeous Word Clouds

11. References
 http://www.brighthub.com/education/
k-12/articles/58905.aspx
 http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/20
08/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html
 http://www.techlearning.com/default.a
spx?tabid=67&entryid=209
 http://wordsift.com/site/about