Word Cloud Rains Down Coding Clues
To start this blog, I began by brainstorming words that came to mind when I thought of Information Literacy. I re-read sections of Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada to remind myself of some of the skills needed for 21 st century learners. I also included the skills identified from the National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE) 21st Century Literacies as outlined by Richardson’s book Why School in chapter 5. By this time, my list was over 120 words long and I was no closer to identifying major themes of interest for future pursuit. To aid me in making sense of this long list, I entered the word list that I had compiled into a word cloud generator. Although there are many available, I made use of worditout.com since it was free and fairly user-friendly, while allowing for some control over text, direction, colour and word emphasis. I’ve included the image below. As you can see the main word...