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Goes along with my last bookmark for the Wordle.net site. Other ideas to incorporate the easy-to-use website 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.

This is a wordle that was created from the social media interactions of 400 students in one class. The students were using Classroom Salon.

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.

Site to make word "art". I have used this in the revision process for writers who are redundant in their word choice; the more frequently a word is entered, the larger it appears on the finished project. Students can copy and paste their document into the website for this effect.

This is an article about using Worlde as a tool in class. It isn't really used in social networking, but I think it could easily be tweeted or posted as an update on Facebook. The power is in the words and analysis of the rhetorical features in the words.

I love Wordle so I thought I'd try this. It's great! It takes Wordle to a whole new level

Tagxedo is different than other word cloud creators in that you can customize the shape of your cloud.