Wordle

Today, Dantrea mentioned an article in the School Library Journal about Wordle. You, like myself, are probably wondering what wordle or a wordle is. Here is the description from the Wordle website:

"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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "

You can paste a list of words into a box or post a URL of a blog or blog feed and it will generate a word cloud based upon the words used. For fun I decided to post the URL for the Blazer Library blog, and this is the result:



If you click on the image it will take you to the website to view the larger image. It can be used for brainstorming, research, classroom assignments, and various other things. You can arrange the letters in different ways and in different colors. So go ahead and try it, you know you want to!!