Wordle

[|Wordle]

"Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes." (from the website ) Try it ... it's addictive! The example below shows a wordle I created by pasting in the text of an article on the future of education by Steve Hargadon. You can read the article [|here.] (Ed)

And here are lots of ideas for how to use it in the classroom! media type="custom" key="3881265"

Try [|Guess the Wordle]

Another site to look at is [|WordSift] - it combines the word cloud idea from Wordle with a n image search and [|Visual Thesaurus]link.

Tagxedo allows you to create word clouds in particular shapes and images.