Quality of Content:
The quality of the content of Wordle is valid. What I like about it, is that it’s open-ended. It allows the user to utilize its features in many creative ways that can address various educational concepts or skills.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool:
One of the best features this site offers is that it is very open-ended; therefore, it can be used in different stages of the learning process. In my content area of library media, I see it most easily used in the “Applying” stage. Students can create “Wordles” to display what they’ve learned or what they want others to take back from their work. It helps sum up information learned and points out important key aspects of a topic by making that word larger than the rest or taking the shape of the main idea. Some examples of using this program with the library media learning goals would be for summing up encyclopedia articles, book reviews, describing literary characters, having peers guess what a given topic may be with descriptive words as clues, poetry, etc. There are numerous options of how to use this program to fit your teaching-learning goals; however, a common learning objective would be for students to be able to use various descriptive words to convey a message, which is a common language arts standard. The characteristics of the learner are having the ability to summarize content, recognizing the main ideas, and using descriptive text to express the information. I believe this program gives students and teachers a perfect opportunity to develop and utilize these skills and does so in an entertaining manner. It’s engaging software that will gain students’ interest and can be molded to fit many curricular areas and learning goals. In addition, this software is free and user friendly. I believe teaching-learning goals are easily identified and are versatile to many needed goals. The software also allows room for advancement. If students are fairly strong users of the program, they have the option to explore advance features which give them more control over their World creations.
Ease of Use:
This site is very aesthetically pleasing and extremely user friendly. It allows various ways to input your information and your options are clearly stated. The content is light so the user does not get trapped or lost in material because the user is the one who will be inputting in the majority of the content themselves. The user has the option of getting feedback either by visiting the FAQs or by submitting concerns in the discussion forums. From what I can tell, the site is fairly free of technical issues and the support offered enables you to overcome any obstacles you may face. Wordle is a very attractive site for students to use because it displays their own words in a fun, creative way. Learning how to use the site should be quick but for students who want to explore further, advanced features are readily available as well.
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