The Re-created Design Cycle 
It is important to remember that the cycle is not linear, it is expected that during the cycle students will jump back and
forth between the four areas.

I must admit this world of technology is quiet daunting for me. I still buy books from the book shop and I’m a self-proclaimed old fashioned pen and paper, note-taking kind of girl. So I went into designing my word clouds with an already impeding sense of dread. To begin with I tried using Wordle or Tagxedo as these were the suggested ones; I was unable to get either to work as according to the endless pop-ups I received my Jarva subscription was not up to date. At first I panicked however after some google work I found the program Word-it-out. I attempted this program and it actually worked. It took the very long rational and aims of the Australian Curriculum for the technologies subjects and turned it into a beautiful visual learning tool. This program was very easy to use and the only real skill needed was a pre-existing understanding of the copy and paste functions. It produced a very appealing visual learning tool that would help to get across key words and ideas of text. This could be used with very young children to learn sight words and with higher grades to introduce them to new subject topics. In the end i was very proud that I was able to eventually successfully produce my word cloud. I would definitely use a program like this when teaching as in the 21^st century visual learning tools are needed to entice and engage students who live in a visually saturated world (Younie, Leask & Burden, 2015).

Reference

Younie, S., Leask, M. & Burden, K. (Ed.). (2015). Teaching and Learning with ICT in the primary school. New York, NY : Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. 

The following is a word cloud designed on Word-it-out, a word cloud program designed to turn large sections of text into visual learning tools. This one is created out of the rationale and aims for the digital technologies and design and technology subjects from the Australian Curriculum. Programs like Word-it-out pick out the most used words and create a visual learning tool that helps to get across the main key words or ideas of the text. 

The following table is taken from my own understanding of what the Australian Curriculum states as achievements and learning that students will get out of  Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies. The following table consists of verbs taken from the overviews of both subjects. Associated pedagogies have then been formed to help students achieve and do these elements.