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| Title | Using Wordle in Your Classroom |
| Body | Two American Association of Teachers of German listserv subscribers recently suggested ways to use Wordle in a second language classroom: --- For the last activity in my Maerchen unit, I took the texts of the ten tales we read, and put each through wordle.net to make a word-collage. I edited out the obvious giveaways like "Rotkaeppchen" or "Zwerge". After I made each collage, I did a "print screen", pasted to a text document, edited the images so that two fit on a page. I then made a list of the ten titles, and the students had to match the titles to the collages. Schwab, H. [AATG-L] Using wordle.net. American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 26 Apr 2010). --- I use it for: 1) a vocabulary game. I have a large classroom set of vocabulary flashcards for each unit/chapter that we do. Sometimes I will place all of the English equivalents for the German vocab words into a Wordle using a color scheme that will project well onto my white board. I divide the class into 2 teams giving each team a different colored whiteboard marker, and have one representative from each team stand behind a given line on the floor about 4 or 5 yards from the board. As soon as I show the German vocab word, the team's rep can rush to the board and circle the English equivalent. First person to circle the correct word scores a point for their team. We then erase the board and get set for 2 new team members to come up and try the next word. If they rush up and circle the wrong word, I give the opposing team a free chance at circling the correct word before the student with the wrong answer can try again. It works just as well using the German words in the Wordle and showing the English flashcard. 2) a senior graduation gift. I make my seniors answer some questions about their future plans, favorite things from high school, name of their best friend, and other personal questions, and then turn their answers into a personal Wordle about them that I print out with the color scheme being our school colors. Last year I bought cheap frames at the dollar store and framed these as 8x10's to use as attractive yet reasonably priced graduation gifts. McClain, K. Re: [AATG-L] Using wordle.net. American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 26 Apr 2010). --- Are you a Wordle user who gets frustrated because you can’t get the program to treat a multi-word phrase as a single unit? Read how to do it here: http://blog.wordle.net/2008/06/keep-words-together-with-tilde.html |
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