Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Dover Beach in Wordle

Jun 29th, 2008

Thanks to Peter (why no personal blog anymore) for pointing me to Wordle … you could have great fun with this. As Peter says,

Enter any text and it’ll create a ‘cloud’ of your words with more prominence given to those that occur more frequently. It gives a useful view of the ‘big picture’ of a piece of writing. I can’t wait to start using this with students.

Here’s Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach, set to Wordle:

Dover Beach

Update: Ian has put the Harnessing Technology: Next Generation report into Wordle - it makes interesting “reading“.

Gareth Davies posted this entry on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pm. Posted in the category Digital storytelling, ICT and education You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.