Word+Sift

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From the WordSift website: WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!  [|READ MORE...]  Brief Introduction to using WordSift:


 * 1) Log on to the Word Sift website by clicking here: []
 * 2) There, you will see a box in which you will paste text. Click "SIFT"
 * 3) For this particular website, it's less about creating the cloud than what you can do with the cloud.
 * 4) Once the cloud is created on the next page, you will have several options.
 * 5) The page is now an interactive representation of the text.
 * 6) In the main CLOUD, each of the words is clickable, and those clicks will drill into the information by specific key word, and populate the box underneath cloud that shows the images from Google.
 * 7) Also underneath the main cloud, is a screen from the Visual Thesaurus around the main word in the cloud. (The word that appears the biggest, meaning it was mentioned the most times.)
 * 8) Also, underneath those three main areas is a list of the places in the text in which a selected word appears. (Select by clicking a word in the cloud.)
 * 9) You can still take a screen shot if you want to publish on a web page as a visualization, but this particular tool is less about the cloud and more about the associated content. (Use the directions for taking a screen shot from the menu)

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