Word Clouds

Purpose: Within our Digital Life Unit, we have talked about how we use these technologies to interact with others. Today’s activity will help us shed light on some creative sides of using technology.

Introduction:
Wordle Word Clouds.

Teacher Demo:

Key Vocabulary:
1. Media
2. Digital Media
3. Consume
4. Habit
5. Digital Native
6. Pitfall
7. Responsibility
8. Digital Citizen
9. Community

Student Activity:
1. Log on to www.wordle.net
2. Click “Create Your Own”
3. Type in words relating to Digital Life, you must use the Key Vocabulary
4. When finished click “Go”
5. Choose to randomize the word cloud
6. Take a Screen Capture and crop it in Paint to reveal only your word cloud.
7. Save the file as a JPG titled “FirstName_LastInitial_WordCloud”
8. Submit the file to me via LoopMail titled 'Word Cloud"