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Monday, March 26, 2012

I Heart Wordles.....

I heart Wordles ;-)
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Rdoke: http://flickr.com/photos/cobalt220/4343621338/


What are some of the ways that we can use or have used Wordles in the classroom?
Create your own visual word cloud by going to www.wordle.net.  It is as simple as copying and pasting your text into the "paste in a bunch of text" box.  The clouds give greater prominence to the words that appear more frequently in the source text.  You can customize your word cloud by changing the font, layout and color schemes.  
Check out the SlideShare(www.slideshare.net) presentation below for some ideas:
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