Wordle

=Wordle=

According to their Web site, "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes." To create your own beautiful word cloud, go to: [],

Wordle Examples
//Below is a Wordle which was gathered through a Google Docs Form from a number of WMS teachers who were asked the question: "What excites you about using technology to support writing and learning?"// media type="custom" key="6978367" width="170" height="170" The URL for this Wordle is: []

Below is an example of a Wordle created by a teacher entitled //A Good Start to the Year:// media type="custom" key="6764241" width="180" height="180"

This is a link to a Wordle of Robert Frost's //The Road Not Taken// poem: [] media type="custom" key="8725980"

Below is an example of a Wordle from Anonymous entitled //This is Me//: media type="custom" key="6764267" Do you think your students might like to create Wordles of This is Me for themselves?

Wordle Resources
Below are resources that will help you use Wordle:
 * **Why Use Wordle:** Click here for an analysis of Wordle by Rolando Navarro and Lisa Jurovaty: [|Rolando and Lisa's Doc. for Wordle.doc]
 * **How to Screen Capture and Embed a Wordle on a Wiki Page:** Click here for instructions on how to screen capture a Wordle screen, save it as a JPG image and embed it as a Widget from Kristine MacDonald, WMS Speech/Language Pathologist: [|How to Screen Capture and Embed a Wordle onto Your Wiki Page.doc]. Below is Kristine's example of her JPG embedded as a widget: [[image:wordle_slp.jpg width="800" height="475"]]