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generates a 'Wordle' based on your last.fm profile

Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide.

Creates word clouds from inputted text. The size of the words in the word cloud depends on the word's frequency in the input text. The word cloud can be customized using different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Create "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Allows you to clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Awesome and simple web app that lets you paste in text to be presented with word clouds related to the text.

This tool rocks. I can think of tons of uses, particularly in prompting discussion, analyzing large amounts or text, etc.

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There is a huge body of research to support prereading strategies like this, and it improves vocabulary too!