Wordle - 'Word Clouds'

I really like Wordle - although in my subject its uses are largely limited to producing keyword posters. I'm sure that it could have a wide range of uses in many subjects. You can change the font, and the colour scheme, as well as the basic layout (every which way, horizontal, mostly horizontal, half and half, mostly vertical, all vertical). The more often you enter a word, the larger the word is in the Wordle. TIP - put your text into a wordprocessor and paste it into the web-site 'create' window, in case you need to go back and re-do it - as it is lost when you press the 'create' button.

Wordle produces 'word clouds'. It's online at http://wordle.net/, and at the moment there are some unresolved problems with using it on the school network, so you can't use it with your students in lessons until these have been sorted, but you should be able to use it at home. Here are some examples, some are produced by me, others have been taken from the web-site (click on any of these to display them full screen):

Word Processor - keywords poster












Dylan Thomas











Colour Keywords - I searched for as many colour names as I could










Beatles - All you need is love












The Sermon on the mount