The Word Clouds app (by ABCYa.com - this will help you know you are downloading the right one!) lets you make word clouds - a graphical representation of word frequency. This app is Wordle in an app!
*Note: You must enter a minimum of three words for the app to function properly.
*Tip: Have students compose their word list in Notes or some other program so the list can be saved, added to, etc. Then, copy and paste that into the Word Clouds app - this will save you and your students some frustration!!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpt4DEC_IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-IKPvBXouk
Examples:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/humm/fall2012/c092812_7.html
https://sethers.edublogs.org/2015/04/22/word-clouds-in-the-classroom/
http://techronicity.blogspot.com/2010/11/word-clouds.html - Hamlet's Soliquy at the bottom of this page
In your Classroom:
Biography
Bumper Sticker (Mantra or motto)
Goals
What I learned?
Adjectives
Summer Fun
Lesson Key Points
Speeches
Poetry
Literary Works
Character Education
President Speeches - Copy president's speech and check for frequency of words.
Splashy newspaper article headlines
Use as image slide for presentations (PowerPoint), video (photostory, movie maker)
Visual assessment of any written content (eg. paragraph, non-fiction, persuasive essay…)
Spelling review practice
Use as assessment reflection
Insert visual into webpages, blogs, wikis
Use the image as a launch point of knowledge for a topic or unit
To Share:
Tap the 3 lines in the upper left of your screen and choose "Save to Photos" . . . This is the ONLY way to save work, you can not come back later to edit your Word Cloud, you can still edit as long as you are in the app and have not started a new one, but that is the only way you can edit. (Remember the tip above to make the word list in another app that does save? This is why!!) Once you have saved it to your camera roll, open Google Drive and upload your Word Cloud picture. Tap on the "i" next to your Word Cloud and choose "Get Link", the link is copied to your clipboard and ready to be pasted into your completion form!
*Note: You must enter a minimum of three words for the app to function properly.
*Tip: Have students compose their word list in Notes or some other program so the list can be saved, added to, etc. Then, copy and paste that into the Word Clouds app - this will save you and your students some frustration!!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpt4DEC_IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-IKPvBXouk
Examples:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/humm/fall2012/c092812_7.html
https://sethers.edublogs.org/2015/04/22/word-clouds-in-the-classroom/
http://techronicity.blogspot.com/2010/11/word-clouds.html - Hamlet's Soliquy at the bottom of this page
In your Classroom:
Biography
Bumper Sticker (Mantra or motto)
Goals
What I learned?
Adjectives
Summer Fun
Lesson Key Points
Speeches
Poetry
Literary Works
Character Education
President Speeches - Copy president's speech and check for frequency of words.
Splashy newspaper article headlines
Use as image slide for presentations (PowerPoint), video (photostory, movie maker)
Visual assessment of any written content (eg. paragraph, non-fiction, persuasive essay…)
Spelling review practice
Use as assessment reflection
Insert visual into webpages, blogs, wikis
Use the image as a launch point of knowledge for a topic or unit
To Share:
Tap the 3 lines in the upper left of your screen and choose "Save to Photos" . . . This is the ONLY way to save work, you can not come back later to edit your Word Cloud, you can still edit as long as you are in the app and have not started a new one, but that is the only way you can edit. (Remember the tip above to make the word list in another app that does save? This is why!!) Once you have saved it to your camera roll, open Google Drive and upload your Word Cloud picture. Tap on the "i" next to your Word Cloud and choose "Get Link", the link is copied to your clipboard and ready to be pasted into your completion form!