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…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 1 | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning  In this series of posts I will cover: 12 Tips in Using Wordle  (Some you may now… but other you may not.) Over 10o ways  to use Word Clouds in the classroom There is more to Word Clouds then Wordle… other awesome word cloud generators Beyond word clouds… cool sites and applications to integrate word clouds

Thanks for sharing! Try starting with a word that contains one of the vowel letters and two of the consonant letters. The most common consonants are S, T, R, D, L and then there are five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U). Also, try to end each word with an S or an R so it flows well from one letter/word to another. Check out this website https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/j/ if you are stuck and can't find the word.

Transform your text into word clouds! Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Make and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut!

interactive tools and ways to use them in school libraries. Wordle - creates word clouds from pieces of text, rss feeds or tag clouds. Higher-frequency words become larger than others, providing a visual demonstration of their probable importance.

"Concordle has one point common with Wordle: it makes word clouds. But these are only text, and in a browser in general the choice of fonts is limited, so the clouds are not so very pretty. But it is much more clever: All the words in the cloud are clickable, i.e. they have links to concordancer function. "

Quirky little javascript, but I am using this as a way to introduce students to the notion of word frequency and the application of a KWIC. See 'wikisheet' at http://kristinaweb20.pbworks.com/activity+-+introduction+to+ddl for an 'introduction to data-driven learning' with a Concordle task.

enter a word, and a series of related words will join in the wordle, a word cloud; thanks to Twitter colleague

This week's tip features a web tool that will create word clouds from text you provide. The more frequently a word appears in your source text, the larger it will be in the cloud. With this clever tool you can even change fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Excellent all-around resource on WORDLE.

Wordle is a neat application that allows you to paste text in and it will create a tag cloud formation with the most used words appearing larger than others.

I am hooked up on Wordle and play it every day. It's fun to play word games because it helps me to sharpen my brain and exercise the brain. I can play this game anywhere and anytime. Even if it's difficult to guess the word, this website https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/pac/ helps to find hints.

unlike a normal tag cloud, Jonathan Feinberg's uses the interior space of the words & letters... the result is simple but beautiful.

My first contribution to the UTechTips site! On to the Tips… Apparently, I am very late on the bus with this particular tool However, I looked at whether it had been covered on UTechTips and I think that often with Web 2.0 tools, we find that we are bringing in new readers in our faculty ALL THE TIME. So how do they go back and discover new tools or read some of the great posts of our past?

Just for fun -see when, to whom and what time you tweet and then turn it into a cloud or with one click into a Wordle (I didn't save mine; it looked nice but a bit disturbing at the same time...to know that all your tweets can be gathered just like that! Apparently I tweet about teaching, with edchat really big next to the other words :-). You're also told about your twooshes (exactly 140 characters)

October 2, 2008 post. Detailed description (and video) of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds. The blogger had created a wordle and covered up the words with with rectangles. Students came to the SMARTBoard one at a time to touch the rectangle and reveal a word. Then they used a spinner to tell them what to do with the word: to use the word in a sentence, tell how many syllables, or give a synonym or antonym. The rectangles were colour coded by degree of difficulty so the teacher could differentiate instruction. You can download the Notebook file, and the blogger promises a tutorial for this idea.

7 practical ideas for using Wordle with ESL and EFL students.

video tutorial by Nik Peachey