Thoughts re: Meeting February 17, 2010
I introduced the students to Wordle and the idea of using words as part of a design or as a piece of art. When I asked for a topic, one student piped up with, “Pancakes!” So I went to Wikipedia and copied the article on pancakes, which included several recipes. The word cloud is attached. They thought it was really cool to see all the words associated with pancakes and then to click to 
change the format. I set them loose with the only requirements that their work was appropriate for school and that they not browse through the gallery, because anyone can put in any words and not all words are appropriate for school. They were very good about that and enjoyed thinking of different topics to make word clouds. I was pleased to find that Jonathan Feinberg had arranged the home page to contain only G-rated work and provided with step by step instructions to make the site safely available to schools. Several of our projects are attached.
I introduced the students to Wordle and the idea of using words as part of a design or as a piece of art. When I asked for a topic, one student piped up with, “Pancakes!” So I went to Wikipedia and copied the article on pancakes, which included several recipes. The word cloud is attached. They thought it was really cool to see all the words associated with pancakes and then to click to 
change the format. I set them loose with the only requirements that their work was appropriate for school and that they not browse through the gallery, because anyone can put in any words and not all words are appropriate for school. They were very good about that and enjoyed thinking of different topics to make word clouds. I was pleased to find that Jonathan Feinberg had arranged the home page to contain only G-rated work and provided with step by step instructions to make the site safely available to schools. Several of our projects are attached.
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