Comments on: A Wordle A Day…

By: Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:21:06 +0000

@Helen,

Thank you! I love the idea of using Wordle to reflect on your own thinking – great way to find your own voice on a blog!

By: Helen Hickson

Helen Hickson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:40:42 +0000

Hello – I just wanted to pop in and say how much I enjoy you blog and especially this post abotu Wordle. I have been a bit stuck with my thinking recently and felt like I was going around and around in circles, so to use Wordle it gave me some really clear information about the dominant themes. Thanks.
Helen

By: Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:11:52 +0000

@Kim,

Thank you! What an excellent use of Wordle! I’m not surprised that your students enjoyed using it so much! Thanks for sharing another great use for this tool.

By: KimTufts

KimTufts — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:38:54 +0000

Hi Kim – Love your blog! I LOVE Wordle. I used it with my 7th graders this past week. I am a computer teacher in NH. I have the kids write an “I AM” poem about themselves, and what a cool visual representation of their poem! The kids loved using it so much, they told me they all went home to play with it.

By: Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:38:09 +0000

@Sarah,

Excellent! Thank you so much for the links – I will definitely add Peter to my reader!

@Anita,

So glad you found a new helpful tool! I love the idea of using Wordle to help students reflect even more deeply on their journals. Can’t wait to hear how it goes!

By: Anita Geoghagan

Anita Geoghagan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:44:09 +0000

I love Wordle! You have a convert and I’m going to share this with my Language Arts peers. They are going to love it as well. I enjoy that it gets students to focus on the main thoughts and ideas in their writing. While I teach Technology and the students do very little formal writing, I am planning on pulling out this site when they get ready to print their journals from the modules. I think the results will be very interesting and they’ll enjoy seeing how their thoughts have progressed over the three weeks they spend in each tech area.

By: Sarah Hanawald

Sarah Hanawald — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:38:14 +0000

Argh, lost my comment! Got a message saying I was posting too fast!

I so enjoy your blog! Thank you. Have you been following any of Peter Gow’s work lately? He has two blogs:
http://newprogressivism.blogspot.com/
and
http://admirablefaculties.blogspot.com/
He has some interesting things to say about backwards curriculum design and faculty development.

Thanks again,
Sarah

By: Sarah Hanawald

Sarah Hanawald — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:34:29 +0000

Hi Kim! I’m going to take you up on the offer of considering myself tagged This is a such an interesting concept. I like using Wordle for reflective writing assignments that the students do, such as after a field trip. They can compare the Wordles with each other and see what “captured” them.

Have you read any of Peter Gow’s work on http://admirablefaculties.blogspot.com/ or http://newprogressivism.blogspot.com/ ? He has started writing more again lately, with a focus on what he calls “the new progressivism” I think you might be interested.
Sara

By: Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:59:23 +0000

@Dave,

So glad this got you thinking! I can’t take the credit, though, since it was Lee’s brilliant idea Thanks for the link to your post – am heading there now!

@Jason,

Thanks for the new tool – I was actually checking out FeedVis the other day and ended up getting distracted, now I’ll go back and try a few of my own feeds!

@Lee,

Thanks for getting it started!

By: kolbert

kolbert — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:01:08 +0000

Hi Kim,
Thanks for continuing my meme. It’s been really interesting to watch it’s progress throughout the blogosphere. ~Lee