You can type or paste in a bunch of text, enter the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed, or enter a del.icio.us user name to see their tags. Then, it will customize the words that appear the most from what you pasted in a order. You can customize it by changing the color, font, and layout, or if you press randomize, it will customize it for you. You can chose to print or post it for everyone to see. If you want, you can check out the advanced features to what else you can do.
Advantages: It is an interesting way to put key concept words, vocabulary words, or any words in a word cloud.
Disadvantages: It only puts the words into word clouds.
Examples can be found on the home page of Wordle by clicking the link.
I believe this tool would be used more by the teacher. The teacher would create word clouds from vocabulary. If used by students, it would probably be used in directed instruction rather than authentic instruction.
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
by Jonathan FeinberYou can type or paste in a bunch of text, enter the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed, or enter a del.icio.us user name to see their tags. Then, it will customize the words that appear the most from what you pasted in a order. You can customize it by changing the color, font, and layout, or if you press randomize, it will customize it for you. You can chose to print or post it for everyone to see. If you want, you can check out the advanced features to what else you can do.
Advantages: It is an interesting way to put key concept words, vocabulary words, or any words in a word cloud.
Disadvantages: It only puts the words into word clouds.
Examples can be found on the home page of Wordle by clicking the link.
I believe this tool would be used more by the teacher. The teacher would create word clouds from vocabulary. If used by students, it would probably be used in directed instruction rather than authentic instruction.
Reviewed by Tiffany