Wordle

According to the Wordle Homepage a wordle is:

... a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Here is an example of a Wordle generated from the above definition:



How to use Worlde

Wordle Tutorial

Using Worlde in the classroom by George H. Williams

Wordle Uses

43 interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom- by Tom Barrett.

Ways to integrate Worlde in the classroom - A slideshare presentation by Jen Wagner.

Top 20 uses for Wordle - by Rod Lucier.

23 ideas for using Wordle in a MFL classroom- by Samantha Lunn.

5 ways to use Wordle in the classroom - An article by Terry Freedman.

Interesting Word Visuals


Antoni Kolev created an inspiring Wordle called Peace in 300 Languages.

Inaugural Words - An examination of presidential inaugural language from 1789 on.

Related Tools

Tag Crowd - TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in text by creating what is known as a tag cloud or text cloud.


Visualization Lab - A place to visualize data using multiple forms of technology.

Many Eyes - Another visualization site that uses various technologies to represent information.