Wordle is a simple web application that with a few clicks of the keyboard and mouse, turns any text (including that in a wiki or blog) into a creative, information and possibly colourful word cloud.
Turns any text into an interesting word cloud
To create a word cloud using Wordle, simply:
- Click on the create icon, paste or write in your text (if you want some words in your collection to be larger than others, simply type them in several times) and then, click on go. It may take a few seconds for it to construct a word cloud, but be patient.
- You can then manually edit the shape, the colours and the font in the cloud and even remove words you don’t like by right-clicking on them. Or, you can automatically re-create by pressing on the Randomize button.
Just one note, you can NOT go back and add more words to the list. So, either save your list somewhere (e.g. Word) or highlight all the words and Ctrl C (copying the text).
Applications of Wordle
Check out the presentation (created with animoto.com) about how you and your students can utilise this resource.
Wordle and its applications
