Wordle It!

1. T(echnology) for 2 Summer 2010 Wordle It!

2. A word cloud is a stylized way of visually representing occurrences of words in a piece of text. The most frequently used words are normally highlighted in a larger, bolder font. Modified from Webopedia Computer Dictionaryhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/t/tag_cloud.html

3. So, what’s Wordle? A graphic representation of most frequently used words. In a speech in a poem, in a book, in your head, in scripture, in a historical document, on a blog, in a wiki, on a chart in your classroom, on Twitter/Plurk, at a presentation or staff meeting, in a piece of writing, and more! However, it is NOT limited to only frequently used words. You can create a wordle to be what you wish the wordle to be. Source: Jen Wagner’s Ways to Use Wordle in Your Classroom http://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas

4. A Handful of Sample Wordles

9. Presidential Wordles

10. Posted on C-SPAN minutes after President Obama completed his State of the Union address on January 27, 2009…..

11. President’s address to students September 2009

12. Words of the Inaugural Address

13. 43 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

14. How To Create A Wordle

15. Wordle It! Resources Wordle It! Wiki http://wordleit.wikispaces.com/ Anyone can view the wiki, but only wiki members can add to or edit it.

16. More Online Tools for Creating Word Clouds Word Mosaichttp://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/ Word It Outhttp://worditout.com/ Tagulhttp://tagul.com/ Wordsifthttp://www.wordsift.com/

17. New Favorite Tool for Creating Word Clouds Tagxedohttp://www.tagxedo.com Tagxedo has some amazing features: Upload an image file and use it for the shape of your word cloud. Save your word cloud as an image or an embeddable file.

18. Word cloud of Hamlet's soliloquy.

19. Tagxedo for student's historical ballad assignment

20. So, how will you word clouds in your classroom this year?