I just wrote this article for Leading and Learning Magazine. "Words in a Cloud"
By Samantha Morra. You can access it at this link, but need to sign in to read it.
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.
It's like the central themes of the text, surrounded by their context, almost leap off the page and hit the viewer like a perspective from another dimension.
…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.