{"id":4227,"date":"2014-08-31T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2014-08-31T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:36:45","slug":"creative-random-word-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/08\/31\/creative-random-word-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Random Word Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p class=\"diigo-link\">OK, now this has some fun applications&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativitygames.net\/random-word-generator\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4295\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2009-09-24_07-55-58-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2009-09-24_07-55-58\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2009-09-24_07-55-58-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2009-09-24_07-55-58-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Creative Random Word Generator<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Click a button above to generate a set of random words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Use the random word generator to generate between 1 and 8 random words. Use the idea visualisation features to inspire creative thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Join the growing number of people using this awesome tool to :<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brainstorm (use the words as stimulus for ideas)<br \/>\nPlay creativity games similar to those you&#8217;ll find in our Games Section<br \/>\nCure for writer&#8217;s block<br \/>\nCreative writing prompts<br \/>\nPlay Pictionary and other word based games<br \/>\nAnything else you can think of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">I think we should use it to add <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaffing_and_winnowing\" target=\"_blank\">chaff<\/a>\u00a0to social sites (like FaceBook) who routinely mine what we say in order to serve us advertising.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4227'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4227);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4227);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4227);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>OK, now this has some fun applications&#8230;.. Creative Random Word Generator Click a button above to generate a set of random words. Use the random word generator to generate between 1 and 8 random words. Use the idea visualisation features &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/08\/31\/creative-random-word-generator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[173,350,20],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-creativity","tag-random","tag-silliness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-16b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4871,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/26\/analyzing-games-for-learning-the-becker-lazy-test\/","url_meta":{"origin":4227,"position":0},"title":"Analyzing Games for Learning The Becker Lazy Test","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Becker\u2019s Lazy Test is something I developed some years ago as part of the 4PEG game assessment template (4PEG = 4 Pillars of Educational Games). 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