What in the Wordle? November 8, 2008
Posted by leewin in Uncategorized.trackback
A colleague turned me onto this site called Wordle. What is a wordle? Well it is a text cloud that is created by text you have written (i.e. a blog post, a feed, or from other source document or site) and the words that appear more frequently will appear more prominently in the text cloud.
You can customize the colour, the layout, and the font of the wordle to suit your tastes.
What are some possible applications for this:
- typography -the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. (as defined by Wikipedia)
- using the wordle to discuss the main themes of an article, story, poem in class
- using it to help teach vocabulary in the classroom
- for fun!
- using words to create Art!
Here are a few of my own from other blog posts:
This is an example of the Terry Fox Wordle I created from one of my earlier posts. If you want to see the larger version click here.
Wordles are incredibly easy to create and a lot of fun. Try creating a few of your own and share them with others.
To create a wordle go to wordle.net.
That’s all for now! If you want to see other wordles I have made check the gallery for leewin. Cheers!
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Wordle is an extremely interesting website to use. It’s so much fun to put your URL for your blog and see what you’ve said the most in your posts!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, if you have the time please check out my blog.
http://meghane09.edublogs.org