Wordle

What Is It?
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 * Wordle is an easy to use online tool for generating colorful “word clouds” from text that you provide.**

The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can customize your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.The "word cloud" images you create with Wordle are yours to use for posters, blogs, websites or any other way you choose.

You can print, download them or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with others.

Resources

 * **Wordle**
 * **Wordle video tutorial**
 * **Instructions for using Wordle** Printable instructions for using Wordle (pdf)
 * **Wordle LiveBinder**
 * **Wordle Lesson Plan**

How Do I Integrate Wordle in the Classroom?

 * **Guess the World...site created by Jennifer L. Wagner --** Every day (Monday – Friday) a new wordle is posted for teachers students to view. Each wordle has a TOPIC and students use diciphering skills to figure out exactly what that topic is.
 * **48 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom **Slideshare presentation identifying classroom use for wordle
 * **Wordle as a Writing Assessment**
 * **Wordle in a Foreign Language class**
 * **[|Ten Ways to Use Wordle]**

Examples

 * Wordle Gallery examples
 * Student Wordle for Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Assessment

 * Wordle Activity Rubricfrom iRubric
 * Basic Wordle Rubric(pdf)

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 * //Tagxedo!// AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Word Cloud created with Tagxedo
 * [|ABCya! Word Clouds for Kids] Created for younger students
 * [|Tagul] Shaped tag clouds