Wordle was introduced to me when I was student teaching and not only is it FUN, it's also really useful in a variety of ways. Take any body of text and paste it in and Wordle will turn it into a "beatiful word cloud". Every time a word is used, it appears larger in the word cloud. It's hard to describe in words, yet the words sometimes describe it best.
From Desiderata by Max EhrmannSporcle http://www.sporcle.com/
Warning: Sporcle has the potential to be totally addictive. It's a collection of timed quizzes on a variety of lists. You can make your own or use the ones already there. Either way, inside the classroom or out, this is a great way to spruce up sometimes boring but necessary rote memorization type tasks.
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Thanks for exposing me to Sporcle... it has given my brain a new focus many times... so I could go back to editing/ writing / grading/ reading with a fresh perspective. It's a little addictive.
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