Engage Visual Learners with a Wordle
What is a Wordle?
A wordle is a visual word cloud of text.
Wordles are easy and free to create. Anyone can create a wordle at Wordle.net.
Wordle.net generates a word cloud that gives greater importance to frequently occuring words — so that key words within sections of text are emphasized and displayed in larger font sizes.
You can use wordles in a variety of ways. For example:
- Introduce a topic or concept by visually representing the text in an assigned reading
- Assign students to generate a wordle with the text in their written work.
- Wrap up a welcome discussion question by visually representing the text in student written responses. The image below shows a wordle that was created based on student responses to the question, “What do you hope to learn from this course?”
More Ideas for Wordles
- Forty-Three Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom
http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/wordle.htm
- Top 20 Uses for Wordle
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html
- Using Wordle in Education
http://blog.ecollege.com/WordPress/?p=115
- Create a Banner for Your Blackboard Course
How to Create a Wordle
More Video Tutorials About Wordles
- http://www.iprimary.co.uk/tutorial.php?tutorialID=002
- http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Create-Word-or-Tag-Clouds-with-Wordle-71871714
- http://www.howcast.com/videos/17219-How-To-Create-Word-Cloud-Text-Art-With-Wordle
Share Your Wordle Ideas
Send your ideas and wordle examples to terrymorris99@gmail.com.