Wordle has been around a while now, and most of the teachers that I work with are now familiar with it.
It's still a really useful tool for use in the classroom for visualising a range of text: perhaps the aggregated headlines from newspapers, for example - used it that way several times..
One example of a use of the tool is on this posting, which looks at toy advertising for the different genders...
The posting gives a useful sense of the way that teachers and students need to be 'critical' when presented with visualisations of this type.
It's still a really useful tool for use in the classroom for visualising a range of text: perhaps the aggregated headlines from newspapers, for example - used it that way several times..
One example of a use of the tool is on this posting, which looks at toy advertising for the different genders...
The posting gives a useful sense of the way that teachers and students need to be 'critical' when presented with visualisations of this type.
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