Wordle

Wordle
Most of you have seen Wordle and perhaps have used it in your classrooms. Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

For example, if you cut and paste the words from the Declaration of Independence into Wordle you would get this:



Instantly, your students can see what was on the minds of the writers. Other applications could be purely graphic backgrounds for posters, postcards or the like. You can remove words by right-clicking the word, if necessary. You can print these easily. To get a digital copy, press print screen and then paste into a program like PAINT, which most computers have. Select the Wordle, then cut and paste into a new paint document.

http://www.wordle.net/