Using Wordle in the Classroom

1. Using Wordle in the Classroom

2. What is Wordle?http://www.wordle.net/ • Wordle is a program which creates “word clouds” out of the text of your choice. • It is a graphic representation of the most frequently used words or most important words in a speech, a poem, a book, a historical document or from your own thoughts. • You decide how to present the word cloud re: font, colour, directional word placement, etc. • You save your word cloud for personal use, or allow others to view & offer feedback.

3. Homepage View gallery

4. Create a “Word Cloud” Copy & paste text into the word box, then select “go” & create your word cloud

5. Customize Your Word Cloud

6. Edit Your Word Cloud CHOOSE FONT CHOOSE COLOUR SCHEME CHOOSE LANGUAGE CHOOSE LAYOUT

7. Randomize “Randomize” allows Wordle to set the layout, colour, language & font of your word cloud – keep selecting randomize until you see a style you like.

8. Click “language” on the toolbar; scroll down to “show word counts” to calculate the number of times a word appears in your cloud Word Counts

9. Advanced Feature in Wordle • Using the “Advanced” feature in Wordle allows you to vary the size of specific words by assigning values to the words • The value can be between 15-165 • Assign high numbers to the most important words & lower numbers to the least important words • The higher the number assigned to a word, the larger & more prominent that word or phrase will appear in the Word Cloud

10. Use a tilde (which is this symbol ~) between two words to keep them together)

11. Characters/places/emotions in Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights

12. “Next Generation” Wordleshttp://www.tagxedo.com/

13. “Next Generation” Wordleshttp://www.tagul.com/

14. “Next Generation” Wordleshttp://www.tagcrowd.com/

15. Rubric