Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Wordle.... a word cloud generator with cool results

Wordle ( http://wordle.net/ )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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Here is one that I created with my del.icio.us bookmarks.


Here is another one created by someone and saved to the gallery on Wordle's homepage.
Title: The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe


This tool will come in useful with many classroom tasks.

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