wordle

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related: tools, visual thinking, wordcloud flickr: [|wordle] editing: [|Planeta.com]

Wordle -- [] -- is a fun toy for generating 'word clouds' which give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Tweak the clouds with different fonts, layouts and colors. Words can be arranged in horizontal or vertical fashion. The images created can be used any way you like. Suggestions include using this in presentations as visual word art.

History: [|Jonathan Feinber] is the creator of the Wordle.net web site.

Tip for teachers: "With all the respect due to teachers, whom I revere and consider to be the underpaid champions of our future: I wish you wouldn't assign Wordle as homework. It results in angry emails to me from kids and (especially) their parents, who are understandably frustrated when they can't get it to work, and feel under the gun to do so." - [|Wordle Miscellany]

media type="custom" key="27289178" FYI: Wordles cannot be deleted from the Wordle site as there are no authenticated users.

Cost: Free Advantages: Easy to create word clouds, great graphic! Shortcomings: To save the image, you have to save the file as a PDF and then convert. I wish I could share directly on Facebook and Flickr.

Buzzword Bingo
Alphabetical Order - Create - Fun - Gallery - Horizontal - Java - Layout - News - Print - PDF - [|Random] - Stop Censorship - Tools - Vertical - Visual Thinking - Word Cloud - **Wordle**

rss
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Blog
http://blog.wordle.net [|Wordle Miscellany] [|Somewhere out there, a mother is angry.]

Examples
http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=Planeta http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3751575/south_africa_west_coast_wordle http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/6174401953 http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4552720/buzzwords2011 http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/148388/email_tips http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/148484/Sustainable_Tourism_Wish_List

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/wordleusers/?pli=1

Wikipedia
[|Wordle]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Can I have a Wordle with you?] [|What are they saying? - Wikinomics] [|Ultimate Guide to Wordle]

Other Word Art Apps
http://www.wordfoto.com/

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