The power of Wordles.
Tag clouds are popular to both represent and navigate web content. Now students can build ‘word clouds’ from written text to help them visualize the main concepts in the text.
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.
So what text was used to generate these Wordles? The image at the top of this post was created using the first section of the Classroom First Strategy: A shared understanding.
Below are Wordles created from the first two of the six key elements of the strategy:
1. A focus on student achievement: success for all
2. A classroom orientation: sound teaching
Have some fun and generate some Wordles of your own.
Please be aware that some clouds in the Wordle gallery include examples that might offend.
