People all over the world were consumed yesterday by the historic inauguration events of the 44th president of our great nation, and for the students at Reeds Road, it was no different. While watching the 3rd grade students witness the swearing in and speech given by President Barack Obama, it was unclear how much they understood. Afterwards, the teachers asked each student to describe, in one word, what the inauguration of President Barack Obama meant to them. The computer lab teacher, Mrs. Monroe, took the words and created a word cloud using an internet website (www.wordle.net). Thanks to Kevin Jarrett, a local computer lab teacher for sharing this great idea! A word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently, then you have the ability to customize it. Pictured below are word clouds from our third graders, then a school-wide word cloud from those who participated from Grades 2-6. From the images, it is clear that the students understood the importance of this exciting event. It may be difficult to find, but in the botttom word cloud a 4th grader summarized the event as Obama-tastic!
Hello Kim! Glad you liked the Wordle lesson idea. So powerful to see the kids’ own words in the cloud! Great work on the GTPS blogs, by the way – keep it up! -kj-