Sunday, 30 October 2011

Wordle - beautiful words

Another site for making content more interesting, put simply you can paste any text you want to and the Wordle site will generate an image with the words arranged as a word cloud. Words that appear more often are shown in a bigger font. See below for an example of a Wordle made from a short passage from a Midsummers night dream:


You have complete control of fonts, colours and layout directions or you can simply click 'randomize' until you find a combination you like.

It's particularly good for collections of definitions. It isn't a 'magic bullet' but it is a useful addition to a collection of approaches for a teacher trying to make content varied and interesting.

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