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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Best Oh My Wordle!

Happy Summer Leaders!  Does your troop come across during the summer?  If not, why?  For my troop the girls go a lot throughout the summertime too it would non live on viable to proceed coming together when schoolhouse is out.  But I know troops that non solely proceed to meet, exactly also practise service projects too activities all summertime long.

Please cause got a minute to cause got the poll located to the correct of this post!

What's inwards a word?  Words are powerful, words tin elicit emotion, depict people, places too things too practise a visual picture.  So I was super excited to stumble across Wordle when I saw a printed "word cloud" a co-worker had created for her novel teaching program.  I believe I mightiness cause got squealed.  She was inwards the midst of creating a Kan Ban board to aid her amongst developing a linear invention for a computer program that wasn't created yet.  Think storyboards inwards filmmaking.


I'm a really visual learner too therefore making too using Kan Ban boards is correct upward my alley.  But I digress.

Wordle is a tool that allows you lot to input keywords too output a discussion graphic similar this:

Colors, fonts too discussion direction tin all live on personalized.  The resulting graphic is printable too saveable, exactly live on cautioned, sometimes it's a chip tricky too you lot can't "find" the graphic too therefore live on certain to practise covert shots of pertinent data earlier moving on.  You volition non live on able to acquire dorsum too according to the electrical flow Wordle FAQ's, you lot cannot search for a wordle.

The to a greater extent than words you lot use, the to a greater extent than detailed the discussion cloud:

Wordle has a lot of applications to troop life.  It is a nifty agency for girls to practise a visual brainstorming session, run it every bit a tool inwards the "It's Your Story, Tell It" journeys too would brand a nifty gift if you lot entered each girl's scream too her qualities, or troop goals, etc. along amongst a few Girl Scout words.  Here is i I industrial plant life on the web:


So take in Wordle too play away!