Wordle Words

Wordle is a web based application for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Great for creating a visual! A "Wordle" enables you to see how frequently words appear in a given text, or see the relationship between a column of words and a column of numbers. Wordle draws each word at a size proportional to its frequency. Common words, such as "the", are filtered out. 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.

Here are a couple of examples I created - this is really easy to do - it took seconds!
You can click on the image to make it larger.

I found the tag cloud of my Delicious account interesting.



It really illustrates my focus professionally.

I also created an example using the Canadian National Anthem.



There is a list of 20 Uses for Wordle from a teacher's blog, Rodd Lucier, The Clever Sheep... Leading in New Directions.

Here are a few of my favourite Wordle ideas from Rodd's blog:

Convert a sonnet or Shakespearean play; or children's book (Dr. Seuss anyone?);
Turn an essay into a poster;
Show "Today in History" stories in a new way;
Enter keywords from weekly weather reports to obtain a seasonal picture.

If you come up with some other ideas, send them along!

Images created by Wordle.
Wordle images are Creative Commons Licensed