wordle

Wordle in Education
Wordle is a fun way to create word clouds from a string of text. You can either type directly into the text box provided, or copy and paste text into the text box. The more times you type a word, the larger it will be in your Wordle. A few tips and tricks for using Wordle:
 * 1) Go directly to the wordle.net/create screen. If you go to the main page you will be able to see the public gallery and you never know what will show up.
 * 2) If you type directly into the provided box, copy the text onto the clipboard before you click go. That way if the Wordle doesn't look right, all you have to do is paste the text back into the window.
 * 3) If you use a ~ between two words, Wordle will see it as one word and keep them together when creating your Wordle, but will leave the ~ out. So Problem~Solving becomes Problem Solving.
 * 4) When you've gotten the text just right, use the "Edit," Language," "Font," "Layout," and "Color" menus to make your Wordle just right.
 * 5) Press the Print Screen button (PrntScrn) key on your keyboard when you're finished and simply paste the screen shot into a word document. Then crop around the Wordle to remove unwanted parts.

Resources
Tom Barrett has created a Google Doc presentation about using Wordle in the classroom. You can view it below or click the link **[|HERE]**. media type="custom" key="5854405" Jennifer Wagner has create a "**[|Wordle of the Day]**" challenge for educators and students.