In this post I will write review about two websites that you can use to make word cloud.Word cloud can be use to teach vocabulary to students.Teacher can use it to activate students schemata.It looks more interesting than just list down words. Basically,a word cloud is a cloud of word that you take from an article.The words that most use in the article will be in the word cloud.Hence, if you want students to read article,word cloud is one of good pre-reading activity.
Below are two websites that can be used to make word cloud.
1.WORDSHIFT
how to use??
1.First, paste your article on the website.
2. Then click SIFT,and automatically a word cloud will be formed. Words that are written most in the article would be included in the word cloud.
How can Teacher use this in Teaching
1.Teacher can use this as pre-reading activity.For example, ask students to guess from the word shift.This can help students to activate their schemata for the lesson before the real lesson starts.This can helps to prepare students mentally for learning.
Advantages of this website
- it is simple to use
- you can click on the website to see the words from rare to common
-if you click on the word you can see suggested image as well
-if you click on the word you can samples of the word use in the article also
-students can easily focus on the keyword because of the simple design
-thesaurus
-you can click on the word and it will show you the word use in the article
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2. WORDLE.NET
How to use?
1.open the webpage and click on the word CLICK to form a word cloud
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2.Then,copy your article or you paste the url of your article
advantages of this website
1. You can leave out certain words/things that you don't want to be included in the word cloud.For example,You do not want names to be included in the word cloud,you can cut it out.
2.If you are taking article from internet you can paste the URL directly
3. the words can be colorful.You can choose what kind of color that you want
4.It has more designs than word shift.For example,you can either the words in the middle looks bigger or all the word have the same size
5.Since there are many things to do with the design and colors of the word clouds, students can enhance their creativity
6.In this website,you can save and print your work which is good!!7.It works way faster than word shift.
Disadvantage
However,many people would find it is hard to use this because to see the word cloud you will need java to be downloaded.BUT to download java is very easy,there is help button if you can't see the image of the word cloud,which will give you a few suggestion what you can do in order to see the image.
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HOW CAN WE USE WORD CLOUDS IN TEACHING
1.pre-reading
2.to activate schemata
3.teach sudents new vocab and show it interesting way
4.students can relate one word to another
5.easy to remember the main essence of the article for example history
6.creativity- guess from the wordle ask students to write the story and copy it to wordle and bring it to the class and ask their friends to guess their story from the world
7.predict your friends' story
8.can see way common word that in a class use
9.match wordle and stories in group
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