Wordle!

I've recently had the pleasure of exploring the Web 2.0 tool Wordle and creating a wiki to help teach others about it with my partner in class, Taryn. This tool is used to create interesting word clouds that can be filled with any words you choose. Check out the Wordle wiki to learn more about how to use it. Here is an example of something that can be created on Wordle.




Wordle is very simple to use and the website can be easily navigated. I easily figured out how to enter words and create the word cloud. While exploring this tool, Taryn and I also ran into a few difficulties though. We could not figure out how to find word clouds we created after saving them to the public gallery. Therefore, I suggest printing or saving them somewhere else if you would like to keep it for future use. Another tip we later learned was to add a ~ between words in a phrase to keep it together in the cloud. Next time, I will definitely use these two hints to make a better Wordle, and to be able to use the same one more than once. I can use this tool when I begin teaching young children to create name clouds of every student in my class, and even alphabet charts with words that begin with each letter. This can also be very intriguing for children to help create as well.