As I read Michael Gormon’s post 200 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom , I missed seeing suggestions for the subject of RELIGION.
So here are 8 Suggestions for using a WordCloud in your religion classroom:
- Paste a Gospel Reading from the USCCB website into your Word Cloud tool. You may wish to turn off common words. Discuss the phrases or words that are important in this reading.
- Post students first names to create a Word Cloud of those who are part of your class.
- Students create a Word Cloud for the life of a specific saint or Scripture personality.
- Make a Word Cloud of certain Scripture events – e.g., Birth of Jesus, Jesus Lost in the Temple, etc. Then exchange the Word Cloud with another group and invite the group to identify the story.
- Pick the same story in Scripture as told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John (e.g., Parable of the Lost Sheep (Matthew and Luke ) and create two different Word Clouds. Invite students to discuss what is unique to each storyteller.
- Make a Word Cloud of lyrics of your favorite Christian song.
- Have students create a Word Cloud using their favorite Bible Passage. They then present their Word Cloud to the class and invite students to guess the passage.
- Show a Video. Then invite groups of three to five students to identify words or phrases that are important to this video. Have students create a Word Cloud using their words or phrases. Discuss the similarities and differences between the various word clouds created by each group.
You may want to look at a previous blog article WordClouds and Prayer for suggestions to use a WordCloud in prayer.
I have a feeling that my readers have some other suggestions. I invite you to add your suggestions in the “comment” section of this blog.