Tech Tool of the Week: Word Sift

This tool struck me as really interesting for use in the ELA classroom

http://www.wordsift.com/


I did a practice run with the tool using the text from one of the many really brilliant writer/thinkers in our English cohort. Her post can be found here:

I think that its a great tool to allow students to see a visual representation of what would be the main ideas or key words of a text. These are some things we ask students to identify when examining a text.

I still need to sift through some more thoughts on this tool and its uses and implications before my post is completed.