Monday, March 15, 2010

New Ways and Ideas to Create Word Clouds


Remember how Wordle creates Word Clouds.
http://www.wordle.net/

Remember that Word Clouds are collections of words from a document or documents that show the frequency of word use by their size, and are often designed in a unique manner.

Here are some resources to continue to use Word Clouds in your Curriculum.

Forty-five Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

19 Word Cloud Resources, Tips and Tools

http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/02/14/12-word-cloud-resources-tips-tools/


Other Examples of Word Cloud Sites

Tech Tools and Words Clouds
http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/02/10/tech-tools-pedagogy-ii-word-clouds/
Comparison of Word Cloud Sites
http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/02/wordle-closed-alternatives.html
More Examples of Classroom use of Word Clouds
http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/i-can-back-off-my-blogging-turn-down-my-tweeting-and-even-wrap-up-my-wiki-but-i-can%E2%80%99t-wane-my-wordling/

2 comments:

JoAnn said...

Can I share your posting with my colleagues on a wiki?

Margo Shirley said...

Yes you may share!