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Wordle genre signs (and authors-I-like signs)
I’ve been playing with Wordle for some time now.
I found it useful for Dewey signs, among many other things. Cathy Jo Nelson wrote a lovely piece on it for the July 1st issue of this journal.
This week I was thinking of what kind of cool activity I could give to Caroline, our new senior volunteer who loves technology AND reading kind of equally, when it hit me!
Wordle genre signs would be fabulous to display in our fiction area and to embed on our new website.
Caroline decided to start with fantasy. (She moves moved on to horror on Friday.) I gave her Genreflecting, Teen Genreflecting (and darnit, I should have led her to NoveList). I asked Caroline to check her favorite authors against our Alexandria catalog to make sure she was promoting authors we had on the shelves. Her first effort is on the top of this post.
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I thought this would be a very cool project for any student volunteers. And then I started thinking about another strategy.
I can see students sharing favorite authors around their own names and using those Wordles to display as peer book recommendations–along with a display of books, of course.
I did one as a sample.
Note: If you choose to create Wordles like this, do it in the Advanced area. This will allow you to easily set the weight of words and to keep first and last names together.
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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