Word Swag

by Laura Morrison

We love Word Swag — the cool typography-generating app that combines words and images to WordSwageloquently (and creatively!) communicate a message. This tools is particularly great to use in the English Language Arts classroom as a warm-up activity, a medium for a ticket-out-the-door or as a visual aid in a story, report or presentation! Although this app has a small charge, there is another, similar app that can be downloaded for free called Typorama.

To encourage my B.Ed. students before they ventured out on placement recently, I created
a WordSwag positive-power message for them and posted it on the collaboration website, Padlet. Padlet is great because anything can be shared on this site (text, images, video) by anyone with a link. Users don’t need a password and can post content instantly. After the students read my positive-power message, I asked them to create their own “Words of Encouragement” WordSwag or Typorama message and to share it with their peers on the same Padlet wall. Below is a sample of what was shared. Click to enlarge the image and for the higher rez version.

Words of Encouragement

Click to enlarge the image. B. Ed. Padlet Wall: Words of Wisdom

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