Wordle is a great tool for enhancing creativity. By taking a document, or a chunk of text and pasting it into the creation box, Wordle creates a word cloud that pulls important words for the document you used. Below, I used ISTE NETS-T 2000 and ISTE NETS-T 2008 to create a Wordle in order to compare the differences in the standards. If you could like to see a bigger version of my word clouds, click the links under each picture.
When looking at the standards and the word clouds, I do not see any differences in the standards other than there being one lesson standard for 2008 due to it being combined in the other standards. Unless I am completely missing something, I see that both standards for teachers promote the use of technology to enhance engagement and explore creativity. Both standards also state that teachers should promote and model safe use of technology and continue professional development in order to learn new technology and how to use it in the classroom. Over all, both set of standards are closely related, if any difference at all.
I did not have any problems using this tool as I have used it before and it is very easy to use. This tool is more than student friendly. Although I have used this tool before, I have never truly thought about how to incorporate it into a lesson but now I have a couple of ideas.
When it comes to the ISTE NETS-T, when using Wordle, I followed the first standard, Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity. When creating my word cloud, I was able to use my creativity to compare the differences in the two sets of standards. When using this in a classroom, I could have students create their own word cloud for various subjects and topics.
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