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this is the first draft of a wordle used for an image for a blog posting on the topic of links in an article.

first draft

"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.

Plurk post from n2Teaching requesting others to give her links to Wordles.

"Doesn't each writer hope that people find their blog interesting and helpful? I believe the answer is yes. Besides writing an interesting article, it helps to make the blog posting accessible through the reader's use of search engines and access to related articles as they read your blog posting."

Create a phrase or keep words together using the "~" sign

Yes, this is a great tool.

~use this to link words into a phrase\nand use paint and print screen to do a screen capture

teachers once again have been busy making educational connections to emerging technologies. links to other teacher's work also

a Google presentation that combines 43 ways to sue wordle, shared by @g_teach on Plurk

a great array of activities that are together in a Google presentation; many we know about, others are unique. excellent work

Five Reasons to Use Wordle in the Classroom by Terry Freedman Permanent link We know in theory that there are teachers -- probably the majority of teachers -- who have either never heard of Wordle or have no idea why they would need to know about it. I was reminded of this quite recently, in fact, during a visit to the Press Association.

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.