Cool Ways to Make Meaning with Tag Clouds #teaching
While preparing for my presentation on 50+ Fantastic Free tools to use in the classroom for the Georgia Independent Schools Association Conference tomorrow, I've been playing around with a new technique I learned from Tammy Worcester at GAETC last week. First, take a Google Form. Select a field that takes text into it. I'm using the school's survey of technology use from the students as shown below. School survey created in Google forms to determine what technology students own. The form automatically enters the data in the spreadsheet. I highlighted the "please check all you own" Then, highlight all the cells with the answers you want to analyze. Paste it into a word processor that will change things to lowercase (I use Microsoft Word as shown.) Highlight everything and convert to lowercase. I also use the find and replace to remove any extraneous information. Paste it into Microsoft word or other processor that lets you convert it all to lowercase...