Working with Wordle




For my first lesson with the 5th graders, I’m having the students create a wordsplash about themselves using WORDLE. It’s a fun online application where you can paste or type in text and then work with fonts and color to personalize the wordsplash. Students are not allowed to save their splash or browse through the gallery while at school. We’re simply creating and printing in the lab. Here’s a sample of a wordsplash I created using WORDLE with the RSS feed from this blog:

 

You can’t save any of the wordles by clicking “FILE” and “SAVE” but you can do a print screen and then copy into a picture editing program and save that way. This is a really fun tool that I can imagine being used with spelling or vocabulary words, famous historical figure names and so much more! Thanks to J. Colby for suggesting this great resource!

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5 Comments so far

  1.   Sophia 5G on October 29th, 2008

    Great job on the “WOZA” drum Ms.Wilson!

  2.   Jacob5-g on October 29th, 2008

    the gym show was the best thing in my time at federal furnace Ive done. Our art teachers Ms.Whynott and Ms.Willson made awsome. they made a bunch of pictures of africa animals. Ms.Pratt and Ms. Mcmin organized the whole thing. I was in 2 acts. it was AWSOME!!!

  3.   Sophia 5G on October 29th, 2008

    Thank you Ms.Wilson,Ms.Whynott,Ms.McMinn,Ms.Henderson,and all the teacher who helped.(Especially with our beginning and ending line!)

  4.   Abby 5-g on October 30th, 2008

    Wordles are so awesome! I love them! But the bad part is it doesn’t work on my computer because I dont have java or something

  5.   Abby 5-g on October 30th, 2008

    I love wordles! They are awesome! But it stinks hat I can’t do them on my computer because I don’t have Java or something. :(

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