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Wordle is a fun Web 2.0 tool to use with students. The most repeated word in a Wordle is the largest. Wordle also allows users to change the layout, colors, and font. NCTE provides some cool ideas for how to use it in the classroom.

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.

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.

Why wordle? Ideas for using wordle in the classroom.

Daily Wordle puzzles based on famous books, locations, and dates. Not the most complicated use of Wordle, but rather inventive. Would be better to have comments turned on, so people could guess and discuss the daily puzzle.

As part of Bob Sprankle's final project he created a Wordle tutorial. Bob has a strong grasp of how this tool can be used in the classroom to affect student learning.

Wordle tutorial.

Found this Wordle. Yellow fin and blue fin tuna on their way to extinction...according to Sea Sheperd org all species of whales, sharks and albatross also within 30 years. No policing of fishing at all beyond each country's limits. Nada nichts zero zilch.And not enough done within those borders either...

A new wordle-type website

This lesson plan teaches persuasive devices by looking at Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" and you can use this with other speeches as well. It also encourages the use of Wordle, an excellent practice for analyzing documents of any length.

great way not only to see your stats, but you can quickly make a wordle cloud out of your tweets. nice way to cap a year's worth of pln chat.

word it out tag clouds

Alternative to wordle, free and works on an iPad in Safari. Can also email link to created word cloud. 

Terry Freedman discusses different tools for creating word clouds including wordle, tagxedo, and many eyes. 

A collaborative project

kind of like wordle

shaped word clouds a la wordle

Create word clouds with just about anything. (Tip from Tammy Worcester) paste in free answers from Google forms surveys. (Tip from me - paste into MS word first and turn it all into lowercase.)

In these visualizations, a given text-the "specimen"-is compared to some larger group of texts-the "normative" text-using the Dunning log likelihood statistical analysis, which gives weight to words in a text according to how their frequency of use in the specimen text differs from the norm. All visualizations feature a cloud that varies from gray to blue. In this cloud, the size of the word corresponds to the number of times the word was used in a given address. The word's color depends on how statistically unlikely the word is in the normative text; in other words, a blue word was used more in the given speech than in the others it is compared to.

Yeah, yeah...I know it is my institute, but what a GREAT post!