Teacher tips
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• Cybersafety: Remind students not to write any identifying details in the title, username or comment that they publish in the public gallery along with their word cloud.
• Create: Students type in their own words or Paste in a bunch of text. Remind them to repeat significant concept words more often so these ideas look bigger in the word cloud. Students should use a tilde between words that they want placed side by side – the tilde is invisible in the word cloud. E.g. Toby~Alone OR teacher~librarian OR home~sweet~home. The tilde is found above the T the keyboard.
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• Edit: They click Go to bring up the dashboard. They change Font, Layout, Color, Randomize to create different effects, before choosing one to publish. Show students how to remove unwanted words by right clicking on the word.
• Save: Save to public gallery. Share the URL of the published word cloud.
Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink
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