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  • carlosportela
    Carlos Portela on 2009-06-28
    On May 6, 11:38 am, Tom Jewell wrote:
    > I teach a Communication class at a community college. The last day of
    > the semester, I have the students give a special occasionspeechon a
    > topic of their choice and I give a tribute to the class. This
    > semester, I tried something different.
    >
    > I had each student write ten words about themselves that they would
    > want others to remember them for. Then I had them rate (not rank)
    > each word from one to ten. I took their sheets and made a wordle by
    > putting their name in fifteen times and each of their words the number
    > of times indicated on their sheet. I saved each set of words into a
    > single document before clicking on the "Go" button to make sure I had
    > the text for all of them, since you can't go back to collect the
    > words. I then made a PowerPoint presentation that included:
    > 1. A wordle for each student.
    > 2. A wordle with all of the students in one word cloud.
    > 3. A wordle of twenty definitions of "communication."
    > 4. My wordle for the class--my descriptive words of their
    > characteristics as a group.
    >
    > The students seemed to enjoy it and I found it a great way to close
    > out the semester.
    >
    > Tom Jewell
  • kristina_g
    Kristina Popovic on 2009-09-29
    Tom your idea sounds great.
    I cannot wait to use wordle with my students.
    Thanks for the suggestion!!!

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