I had heard teachers mention
Wordle but hadn't had the opportunity to see or to use it. So I thought I would check it out.
Wordle is a Web 2.0 tool that can generate "word clouds" which are images made up of words. After
inputting individual words or even a whole body of text
Wordle generates a word cloud, resizing and highlighting prominent words. The cloud can then be altered with different fonts, colours and layout. You can then print them out, save as a
PDF or save them to the
Wordle gallery.
Here is an example that one of my students made (with the help of an online thesaurus) consisting of "sad" words.
I also had students compile a word cloud about themselves which we then proceeded to make into a slideshow that I have as a screen saver which is displayed on the board through the projector. Looks like quite an interesting little tool!
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