Wordle

A wordle is a graphic representation of provided text. Wordle 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 scheme. You can print them out, save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
 * What's a Wordle?**


 * Suggestions : **
 * have students enter the text of their report into wordle to create a cover page.
 * have students write a short description of themselves and enter it into wordle; print them off; post them around the room; see if students can guess which one belongs to whom.
 * at the end of the year have students create a report about an artist or author they have studied during the year; have each do a brief presentation; then have the students take a biography from a database or encyclopedia to create a wordle; as a review put up wordles around the room and see if students can identify each artist/author.


 * How to create a wordle: **
 * click on link []
 * click on create your own
 * choose to copy & paste text into box OR enter the URL of any blog, blog feed or webpage that has an ATOM or RSS feed.
 * when the wordle is generated you may manipulate language, font, layout and color
 * the randomize button at the bottom allows for further manipulation of the layout
 * you can print the wordle or save it to the public gallery
 * OR you can take a screenshot of the full size wordle in open-a-window mode. Save the screenshot to your computer [you can save it as a jpeg on a powerpoint slide & then save it to your computer]. Then you can upload the image to your wiki or blog (see Star Spangled Banner lyrics example below)
 * Wordle has an excellent FAQ section; just click on the tab at the top of the wordle page