Wordart.com (L1 Technology) #2
This blog entry is about a tool of my own interest from the list of L1 Instructing Technologies provided by Dr. Wang. I chose the website Wordart.com . In class we discussed the L of TLC which is learning. This tool can be used for information processing by activating prior knowledge. This website is used to create word clouds. Word clouds give a visual representation of a topic while highlighting the important and most frequent words. This website is a great tool for teachers to create posters for their classrooms for students to activate their prior knowledge of the topic when they look at it. The fir st ste p is to cre ate a free account so that you can save the work you create. Then hit "+create" You can then type as many words as you want to be in your word cloud. Note: every time you edit something you have to hit visualize to actually see a change. You can also change the size of the word according to importance as well as the font. Also a very cool thing about ...