Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Wordle


I just read about this site called Wordle. I think it is really cool, except for the catch.\

Wordle is a toy for generating “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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

I had trouble accessing the wordle I made and wanted to share. I had copied the text of the Five goals of the Sacred Heart and created one. Interesting to see the words that really stand out.

I think this has some very cool potential for the classroom. I am guessing kids would LOVE it. Go to the website and check it out.


This is exciting because i figured out how to capture a moodle. This one is based on the address of my blog

Wordle

This is cool. Here is an example of a Wordle a kind of word cloud you can create with any kind of text. I used the 5 goals of the Sacred Heart to create this one, but you may not be able to access it. The idea is that you can create an intersting piece of art using a series of words, perhaps even a section of text, and it appears as a tag cloud. Rather cool!