Group+3

Description of Tool: Wordle is a tool for generating word clouds from text that the user provides. It then emphasizes the most common words in said text.
==How does tool apply to your curricular area? Instead of simply entering students work and creating a visual representation of the work, a teacher could reverse wordle. Language arts/Social Studies could enter a piece of literature and have the students try to figure out what piece of work it came from just by viewing the created wordle. Teachers could also have a student create their own poem or piece of literature according to the wordle and then compare to the original piece that was entered into wordle. For math, teachers could enter a proof or formula and see if the students could recognize which proof/formula is being portrayed based on which words are emphasized.==

==Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why? It would overlap into analyzing and evaluating stages of the Digital Blooms Pyramid. Students get a chance to recall what they have seen in the past and evaluate where they think those main "words" come from. Analyzing will allow students to see which words/points were most prominent throughout the piece of literature or formula/proof and then discuss why they are the most important.==