Wordle is a great app that anyone can use to create a 'word cloud' in an instant from the text that they have provided. It's easy to use and looks good on a presentation or just for their personal use. The words that appear more frequent in the text that you selected, the bigger it will be and this is a creative way of getting your points accross to an audience. Once you have submitted your chosen text you can then change, the font, the colour and the layout to suit you prefered style. Then when your finished you can print it out, send it to friends, or save it on their Open to Public Gallery.
The use of Wordle towards education can be used in a number of ways. It can be used by students to help them with revision, they can simply paste a useful webpage or essay and then Wordle will highlight the key words for them. It is brilliant for visual learners as it gives colour and meaning to the words as they stand out. Teachers can use it to create a creative word display for the classroom for an particular topic or for a presentation to make it colourful and interesting for learners.
How it works is simple when you come to the wordle page you click on Create and it then comes up with this:
Then after you press 'Submit' you will find yourself with your very own Wordle creation.
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