Wordle is a website (http://www.wordle.net/) that allows users to input a list of words then generates a mash up of words. One helpful note about Wordle is that the more you type a word, the bigger it becomes in the "word cloud". The font, color and shape of the "word cloud" can be changed. Word to the wise.... your Java needs to be updated for the Wordle to generate! -KC
Love wordle! I have used it for classroom things, but have never had my students use it. I was thinking that it would be interesting to have students create a wordle at the end of the unit by typing a paragraph about what they learned in the unit. For example, a geometry unit about shapes. Students could type in Microsoft word and then copy and paste into the wordle box. They could turn in both the printed paragraph and the wordle that they can print. It would be a great end of the unit close activity.
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