beccablog, teacher-librarian » visual http://beccablog.edublogs.org Becca (Stith) Munson - A Teacher-Librarian Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:23:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 TagCrowd & Wordle – Educational http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2008/11/12/tagcrowd-wordle-educational/ http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2008/11/12/tagcrowd-wordle-educational/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:34 +0000 beccablog http://beccablog.edublogs.org/?p=117 This is a double-post from the JAG Stacks newsletter blog for teachers at staff at West. 

With new 2.0 tools, there are new ways to visualize text that can possibly enhance understanding and engage students.

 

Tagcrowd and Wordle provide visual representations of words. 

 

How can it be used?  Go to SIRS Researcher, Election 2008, and copy-paste the text of the two candidates.  Wordle or Tagcrowd will provide visual representations of the topics or keywords the candidates emphasized.  Want to see the bias of an author?  Copy-paste the text from a journal article into Tagcrowd and again, you can visualize the important concepts stressed by the author. 

 

Tagcrowd and Wordle can work with any text document accessible through you computer including Word, Powerpoint, and Internet Explorer. 

 

How-To Video 

 

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