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I tried something new in the first meeting\u00a0of my class on Paul and the Early Church this semester. I got students to submit words that they associate with Paul the Apostle to a poll that I had already set up on Poll Everywhere.\u00a0If more people submitted a word, it became larger, and the result was the word cloud above.<\/p>\n

Are you surprised by what is on it, what isn\u2019t on it, or the size of any of the words? What would you have written if you were in my class?<\/p>\n

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I tried something new in the first meeting\u00a0of my class on Paul and the Early Church this semester. I got students to submit words that they associate with Paul the Apostle to a poll that I had already set up on Poll Everywhere.\u00a0If more people submitted a word, it became larger, and the result was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":25908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[8815,13840,13847],"class_list":["post-25907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul-and-his-letters","tag-paul","tag-word-cloud","tag-wordle"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Do You Think Of When You Think Of Paul The Apostle?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I tried something new in the first meeting\u00a0of my class on Paul and the Early Church this semester. 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