The Virtual Round Table conference is a semi-annual live online conference on language learning technologies.

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This Saturday sessions sounds interesting to me:

Using Word Clouds in the Language Classroom

Not Just a Pretty Cloud: Using Wordle in the Language Learning Clas...

This session will demonstrate ways to use Wordle as a teaching and learning tool beyond merely creating an attractive ‘word cloud’. Ideas for a range of activities and language skills will be presented such as introducing new vocabulary topics, previewing a text and making predictions, reviewing a text for reconstruction purposes as well as providing prompts for speaking and writing tasks. Using word clouds for analysing texts, both authentic and student-generated, will also be discussed with emphasis on how this is useful for dtermining the focus and/or bias of the text as well as the range of vocabulary. All of these activities can easily be integrated into lessons with different types of learner and ability groups.