{"id":983,"date":"2017-08-16T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:19:33","slug":"tech-tool-of-the-month-abcya-word-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/tech-tool-of-the-month-abcya-word-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tool of the Month: ABCYA Word Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tech-Tool-ABCya-Word-Clouds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-988\" src=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tech-Tool-ABCya-Word-Clouds-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tech-Tool-ABCya-Word-Clouds-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tech-Tool-ABCya-Word-Clouds-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tech-Tool-ABCya-Word-Clouds.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The ABCYA website offers a plethora of activities for the elementary crowd. This month\u2019s Tech Tool features the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcya.com\/word_clouds.htm\">ABCYA Word Clouds<\/a>\u00a0tool<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even our younger digital natives crave some cool tech tools to incorporate into their lessons. Although the tool is described as appropriate for grades K-5, it could be used with middle schoolers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Word Clouds provides a visualization of the words used most frequently. They also offer a great opportunity for teaching many skills. Although beneficial for all students, word clouds are especially helpful for your more visual learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use Word Clouds to dissect a speech. (I have a Dream Day is coming up on August 28.) Use this to examine this famous speech and help students to visualize the main points. It could also be used to help teach how to summarize and even find the main idea in a text. Use Word Clouds to have students \u201ccheck\u201d their own writing for repetitiveness. Do they notice too many recurrences of the same word?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This site is extremely easy to use. Simply click the green arrow to get started. Type or paste your text into the white box and click Create. Once your word cloud is created, you have the option to limit the number of words in your word cloud. You can also change the layout, colors, and font. Common Core standards are provided. There is also a \u201chelp\u201d area, should you get stuck. Click on the Menu option to edit, save, or print your word cloud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See our listings below for even more word cloud makers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=12390\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of ABCYA Word Clouds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (grades K-7)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=17594\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Word Clouds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (grades 2-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=10707\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Word It Out<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (grades 2-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=16919\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Word Cloud Generator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (grades 4-12)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABCYA website offers a plethora of activities for the elementary crowd. This month\u2019s Tech Tool features the ABCYA Word Clouds\u00a0tool. Even our younger digital natives crave some cool tech tools to incorporate into their lessons. Although the tool is described as appropriate for grades K-5, it could be used with middle schoolers. Word Clouds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/tech-tool-of-the-month-abcya-word-clouds\/\" class=\"more-link\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[70,11],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tool-of-month","tag-tech-tools","tag-technology-implementation"],"modified_by":"Karen Streeter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}