Thoughts By Jen

It has been an interesting 10 days in my life.
The Guess The Wordle wiki has proven pretty successful — and because of this, my friend, Kathy Shields and I decided to take it a step further.

And we created a resource for teachers to use within their classroom.

Available now is Guess the Wordle Level 1

Each Guess the Wordle will be a collection of Wordles which are randomly generated text images using specifically selected words and numbers.  Each image embodies a task.  The task requires problem solving skills which range from basic knowledge and comprehension skills at level one, comprehension and classification skills in level 2 and highest levels of critical thinking in Blooms Taxonomy in level 3 problems which require them to look beyond simple categories and classifications to a much more specific answer.

Each level includes 52 unique wordles available in PDF format (to use on bulletin boards and with document cameras), a Powerpoint presentation, and jpg images which can be downloaded to your ipod/ipodtouch.

We want to say a big thank you to Wordle.net for giving their OK with this collection and also for their willingness to make the wordle images  licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

(FULL DISCLOSURE:  Yes, we are selling this for $5.  I wanted to be upfront with that, no hidden agendas, amazon hidden links, etc etc.)

We will be donating 10% of all sales to the NECC Newbie project hosted by Beth Still:  (http://bethstill.edublogs.org/2009/07/11/how-to-support-the-iste10-newbie/)

Finally, (smiles you know me), we already have Level 2 and Level 3 in the works.  I am also working on a Christian wordle booklet and a What Is Missing Wordle project as well.

The wordles in the book will not be duplicated on the wiki!

Always appreciate your thoughts.
Jen

ps:  here is the link if you want to know more:
http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/GTWLevelOne