I mentioned last week that I am participating in the Summer Break Reading Challenge — not that I've officially gotten started with the reading part... but I'm having a great time with these activities!
For instance, the second activity was to create a Wordle — something I had never heard of before! I chose my review of "Before I Fall" because it's currently my favorite "gush" read — I just can't shut up about it!
The great thing about this particular reading challenge is that, by participating, I have discovered a great technology resource for my classroom! I think this is a fun little program that I can definitely see myself using when students finish their papers as a fun "de-stress" activity.
The only thing is, in regards to Wordle, is that afterward it isn't very user friendly. For instance, I used the provided html code to insert the above photo and it isn't very large. But I wasn't able to copy and paste or save the file. Update (Monday Morning): So after some help from Twitter I was able to "grab" the photo on my Mac and figure it out. But I think that this program could still be more user-friendly.