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Wordle
- creates fantastic results - is brainstorming with hierarchical graphing of results, the more often a word is put in, the bigger it becomes - can be used to pre and post test for learning - is a discussion starter...**
 * - takes no time at all to set up with students

I have used wordle with 2 groups, a year 8 english class and initially with a small group of book club kids.

Genre Studies in English First the class was asked to brainstorm a list of genres on the board. Each member of the class was given three A6 peices of paper and asked to choose 3 genres and put that as a heading. They then had to write as many words as they could about each genre. The students enjoyed this as they could write about things they knew about. I collated and typed in the results. This could be done by students if working in groups.

For romance, the words were: romance love kisses hugs girls boys marriage affair crushes impression dates double~dates couple girlfriends boyfriends kisses love hugs sneaking out bestfriends love kissing romanticlove bed sex babies babes dares lesbian drugs condoms romance romance dates boyfriends girlfriends crushes impression blushing fancy~dinners valentine's~day gifts secret~admirers romance cars kissing dates love romance pleasure cars dates fun kisses

Here's one version of the results! If you have a class discussion and come up with recurring words you can used the advanced features and enter the words with a weighting as shown below. You can also attach specific colours by their codes (something I'd have to learn first!). code llamas on parade:85.43 zombies?:420 donuts:50** code Here are some links to others I've done: [|CRIME] [|FANTASY] [|BOOK CLUB]
 * fruitbats:133
 * Wordle has many applications and looks very cool. I will definitely be using wordle.net again!**