Wordle! Great fun!
In browsing through some of my notes regarding various new web “finds,” I decided to explore Wordle (http://wordle.net). Wordle allows you to type or paste a text selection into its window and ask it to generate a wordle, or “word picture” so to speak. This word picture contains the text you entered, with the words repeated most frequently displayed in a larger font, thus emphasizing their importance. Once the wordle is generated, you can then manipulate the font, layout, and color in various ways to create an interesting visual representation of your text. You can then print it, save it to the gallery, or retrieve its html code to place it on a web page.
After browing the gallery to get a feel for the look of it, I decided to test it out. I wondered what Web 2.0 would look like in a wordle, so I dashed off to Wikipedia for some defining text. I chose the section on “characteristics” and pasted that into the wordle window. Here is what I got – very interesting, and I think it was a fairly good capture. Take a look!
November 4th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I find Wordle interesting myself. I have often wondered at its usefulness in the educational setting, though. What skills do you believe that Wordle teaches or reinforces? As of now, I see it only as a neat tool to spark a student’s interest, but not as something that would really help the goal of teaching all students the eligible content.
November 7th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Thank you……
Very creative,I like it….