Wordle



is... word cloud creator

It's kind of like...

You can find it at... http://www.wordle.net/

What you get for free: copy & paste text or a URL to get a visual representation of most frequently used words

What you get for more:

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Ideas for educational use (please feel free to post links to lesson plans):
 * Essay Word Clouds: After your students write an essay, they can copy and paste their essays into Wordle. Students can check for overused words.You can also have all students share their word clouds and see if there are any similarities, differences. You can post your class clouds on the bulletin board or blog.
 * Famous Speeches/Documents: Have your students work in a groups where each group finds a famous speech and pastes it into Wordle. Have them analyze the cloud for most commonly used words or not used. Have them determine the speakers intentions from the results or guess the speech from the Wordle.