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@bookjewel has developed a new wiki for educators and collaboration on teaching ideas. She used a web application called imagechef to make WORDLES in various shapes. Hers is a star; very cool!

This is a webslides tour of ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

A few great ideas for how to display individual student wordles.

LiveBinder shared by Mike Fisher providing multiple ideas/tools for creating tag clouds.

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

June 20, 2008 post. Several ideas for using wordle. Students create wordles about themselves listing their name and characteristics, hobbies, etc. Students create wordles describing a character in a novel for a character study. It would be fun to create these without the names and then have students guess who the wordle refers to.

Idea posted to a blog about using Wordle for getting the gist of a weather forecast. The author has taken the words from a weather forecast and asks the students why they think certain words are larger than others.

We just found out what a wordle is (thanks Jake!) and thought we'd share what Talented Apps look like with our loyal readers! written by an Oracle group who focus on future ideas and talent

more ideas for using wordle (see In The Classroom)

Wordle is a game I often play when I have time to kill. It's fun and gives me something to do for hours. My husband plays it as well, and we're always trying to beat each other's scores. This tool https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/ye/ is a real find for everyone who likes playing word games so check it out.

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An example of maniupulting the output from a collocates/pattern table in Just the Word as input for the ADVANCED feature of WORLDE.

Hi Sheryl - glad you found it useful. You are quite right about the spreadsheet idea...I tend to use EXCEL and some of the basic TEXT, LOOKUP and FILTER options to manipulate lexical data I get from various sources. I did leave several suggestions for PHIL at the JustTheWord user group in GOOGLE to make the 'mash up' between JTW and WORDLE more seamless. But, as you suggest, copying and pasting the data into a spreadsheet is the only way to do this at the moment. Spreadsheets aren't everyone's cup of tea, but perhaps we could provide a template for the faint at heart, which can make it easier.... I also use the same technique to extract 'sets' from Mark Davies corpus sites at http://corpus.byu.edu as well as vocabulary profiles at Tom Cobb's Lextutor site at http://lextutor.ca -- Of course, PC-based software like ANTCONC and ANTWORDPROFILE also output data that can easily be manipulated into the ADVANCED feature of WORDLE. Here are some WORDLEs in my public gallery that show the results...the ones contrasting OBAMA and McCAIN speeches are quite interesting. http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=BNL2709 My background is EFL, so I find other sources of lexical sets like http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=mouse&btn=Shrink+Set+%28to+15+items+or+fewer%29 also useful as input to WORDLE. :)

I'll look over these resources. Yes, I made WORDLES of Obama and McCain. I think one reason these types of web applications are so interesting is to view the ways in which we teach and learn....what our commonalities are.