Сервисы "Word Cloud" для обучения лексике

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loudsUsing word clouds in learning English

Осипова Наталья Евгеньевна ГОУ школа №542 г. Петродворец учитель английского языка

Обучаем лексике при помощи «Облака Слов»

• How to create a Wordle word cloud

Известный сайт Wordle.net можно с успехом использовать в практике обучения английскому языку / изучения английского языка. Инструмент Wordle позволяет создавать “облака слов”, в эти облака можно превратить любой линейный текст. Слово становится больше или меньше в зависимости от частотности его употребления в тексте.

Wordle не единственный сервис, позволяющий генерировать облако слов, и возможностей использования подобных емусервисов в учебном классе намного больше.

http://www.technogogy.org.uk/wordle/wordle.htm



http://www.wordle.net/


Tagul - веб-сервис, позволяющий создать облако слов из текста, взятого с указанного URL (адрес веб-страницы) или введенного (скопированного) пользователем. Облако может быть представлено в различных формах и цветовых гаммах. Каждое слово в облаке при наведении на него курсора выделяется и представляется как гиперссылка.

Мой пример: я скопировала текст с данной презентации и получила вот такое облако:

http://tagul.com/

http://tagul.com/


Word It Out - создает облако из текста, который вводит (копирует) пользователь. Регистрации не требуется. Цвет фона, текста и размер слов легко меняется.

Мой пример: я скопировала текст с данной презентации и получила вот такое облако:

http://worditout.com/






Tagxedo - Creator не требует регистрации. Созданное облако можно представить в любом виде, например, птички, сердечка или карты Китая. Есть возможность изменения цвета, размера, положения, формы, фона и расстояния между словами. Я представила свое облако в виде ладони. Каждое слово в облаке при наведении на него курсора, также как и у сервиса Tagul, выделяется и представляется как гиперссылка.

http://www.tagxedo.com/



1 - Use Wordle to write "All About Me"

Способы использования вышеописанных сервисов в учебном классе

Fourth grade students spent classroom time writing about their strengths. They put these writing pieces in Wordle and made posters and displayed them on their lockers.

Before the dictionary comes out, give your students a new vocabulary word and ask them to brainstorm all the words they associate with it. Gather up all the brainstormed words for a Wordle.

After the term has been formally defined, repeat the process and compare to the "pre-dictionary" Wordle.

2 - Defining Skills using Wordle


3 - Using Wordle for Classroom PollsVery simple Early Childhood Example.....• Talk about favourite colours.• Each child then types their favourite colour into the text part of wordle.• The wordle created automatically shows the most favoured colour.• Other ideas - birthday month, fav. animals, hardest spelling word, feelings etc.• Could easily adapt to higher tasks and polls.

4 - Summarizing Skills using Wordle As a pre-reading exercise - copy/paste text of reading into a Wordle and ask students to predict what the main ideas of the reading will be. Another pre-reading option - give them a Wordle of a non-fiction reading and ask them to use the Wordle to generate a title or headline before they see the real article. Post reading - ask them to reflect on the reading based on a prompt (examples - main idea, what you've learned, funniest element, etc). Then collect all their reflections into a Wordle.


5 - Character description in the primary school...

In reading groups have students choose a character and add as many words as they can. Compare results- why do we know more about some than others?

6- Make a Unique Gift

If students are preparing for a holiday like Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, etc. They could Wordle wedding vows, family stories, favorite love songs of their parents or grandparents, or just the names of the people in their families to create a very personal, but creative and artistic gift that’s suitable for framing. (And it’s free!)


7 - Power Writing Prompts

To encourage writing fluency, incorporate power writing into your daily program. Enter vocabulary, science text, or poem text into Wordle . Display for students as idea prompts. Students think for thirty/sixty seconds, then write continuously for two (or three/four) minutes without stopping without worry of conventions. Stop. Count words. Repeat two more times.

8 - New Levels of Interactivity

Wordle a collection of words that represent parts of speech. Change the colors to white words on a black background in Wordle and print on an overhead transparency. Project the Wordle onto a large sheet of butcher paper and ask the kids to come and color nouns a certain color, verbs a different color, etc. An extension of this would be to Wordle Characters and Character traits, print overhead transparency and project. Use a color to connect characters with their specific traits.

http://www.wordle.net/create


9 - Spelling with Wordle

Create and post your weekly spelling list using Wordle.

10 - Wordle WORD WALLS!

Instead of a traditional "Word Wall," what about a "Wordle Wall?" Using a student as a "Wordle Recorder," have students brainstorm definitions, adjectives, and synonyms for words, type into the Wordle Creator, along with the key word. Hang on the wall so that students can get a contextual reference of that class's vocabulary. (Very brain-based learning technique: Engaging, Colorful, Motivating...)


11 - Language News

Copy the frontpage of a news website in a second language. Pick out the most important / common vocab to focus on...

12 - Guided Reading Resource

Wordles can support the development of reading skills eg. inference & deduction: Make two Wordles from different sections of the class novel. Discuss with guided reading groups which section comes first & encourage pupils to give their reasons. I often find that this is an activity which has led to some great discussions within groups &helped develop some good speaking skills too.


13 - Revision of texts

You can paste in short texts that your students have studied recently. Show them the word cloud and see if they can remember what the text was about and how the words were used within the text. You can build up a bank of word clouds over a semester and pull them out at random to get students to recall the texts they have studied and the key vocabulary in them. You could also see if they could rewrite or reconstruct the text based on the word cloud.

14 - Dialogue reconstruction

You can create a word cloud of a dialogue students are studying and use it as a prompt to remember or reconstruct the dialogue.

РезультативностьИспользование сервиса «Облака слов» позволяет учителю

разнообразить учебный процесс, тем самым увеличить

эффективность обучения и способствовать

дополнительной мотивации учащихся на уроке. Данный

сервис помогает развить память, языковую догадку и

творческое воображение у учащихся. Наглядная подсказка

в виде ключевых слов – это замечательный способ

стимулировать беглую речь.

Использованные ресурсы

http://www.peterpappas.com/2009/01/build-literacy-skills-with-wordle.html

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-word-clouds-in-efl-esl.html

http://www.k-3teacherresources.com/using-wordles-for-classroom-polls.html http://blognauroke.blogspot.com/search/label/Word%20It%20Out

http://blognauroke.blogspot.com/search/label/Word%20It%20Out








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Сервисы "Word Cloud" для обучения лексике