Flenj presentation how to files word clouds

Eugenia Porello Princeton Public Schools @sra_porello

Choose materials that match your proficiency goals.

BBC Mundo Silent movies Pandora music Muy Interesante Online Cartoons Movies Articles Brochures

Create a Google Drive Form (survey) Remember to set it to “public” or students with your district’s google address.

Once you are happy with your product. Remember to click on the eye and copy the URL that ends in “viewform”.

The form could be as simple as one question long in which you ask your students to provide 10 keywords to talk about this movie, article, song, comic strip, etc.

Paste this URL in your Google Classroom assignment.

Post an assignment in Google Classroom Paste the URL that ends with “viewform”

Correct & Grade students’ submissions to make them “WORDLE proof” Remember! The “democratic” nature of this exercise relies on each student’s voice. You will see their excitement to find validation on those words that look bigger (chosen by many) or those super tiny but equally important. There will be some errors, though… so this is the potentially time consuming part… Once done eradicating mistakes, copy and paste all words onto Wordle. Here is a tutorial…

When creating a Spanish word cloud, you will soon see the need for some ground rules… (see below). You will want to see nouns attached to their respective articles, verbs in infinitive form and adjectives with feminine and masculine forms identified as such.

It may take a bit to acquire and master this routine, but stick to your guns! it pays off in the long run since it promotes the recognition of parts of speech, thus strengthening those building blocks to build more complex structures onto them.

I’ve pasted a snapshot of our rules below.

Customize your WORDLE Cloud to make it unforgettable using an annotation application Why annotate? As you experiment with word clouds you will soon realize that they look pretty much the same (different words of course…) So, if using an annotating application you can draw something that relates to the context that generated the cloud. (Did you see the “sheep cloud” at the beginning of this section? This cloud came to be after talking about good

habits and the internet and looking at this clever political cartoon by Quino) I only drew the “cloud” around the cloud and added legs and a face…

Here are a few of the MANY options for annotation tools‌ Notability Good Notes Evernote You will need to save your cloud as a PDF in order to annotate it.