Wordle

Oxfordshire schools seem to have developed much more of an interest in Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ in the last few weeks - it has taken ages to take off!

This site may help to inpsire ideas!18 interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5&skipauth=true

Or this
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html

Ideas for using it in the classroom
http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=103

One suggestion is one that we have used with adults - looking at the words generated by a report, but done with a children's book may stimulate lots of discussion!

See the following - Excecutive Summary: Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review


and the synopsis of Alice in Wonderland