• Marcel Proust “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but having new eyes.” - Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)

Wordle

• “Word Cloud” – “amplification of cognition by visual means”

• Free Web 2.0 Tool

• Created by Jonathan Feinberg(IBM) and launched in 2008

• “Information Visualization”

• The more frequently the word appears, the larger the font; weight = word count

Wordle Home Pagewww.wordle.net

Click on Create to start

Paste your text here & click on Go

Paste your text here & click on Go

Click on Randomize for more choices

Editing Wordle

• Font

• Layout– Horizontal vs. vertical– Rounder vs. straighter edges– Maximum words

• Reduce # of words to say 50, from 150

• Color– Preset patterns– Custom palette

Using Wordle

• Save in Gallery– Click Save to public gallery– You will need a username

• Print Screen – Paste into Document

• Print

Saving Wordle to the Gallery

• Save to public gallery . . .

• Look up past Wordles with your username

Print Screen

• Click on Print Screen– Upper right hand

corner of keyboard• You may need to use

your function key Fn

• Paste into document– Control V

• Crop • Resize

Wordle Strategies in CTE

• Explain – “Pedal Pulsation” - procedures

• Interpret – Business Ethics

• Apply – Math concepts: ratios in recipes

• Shift Perspective – Branding

• Display empathy – Journaling, Community Service

• Reflectively self-assess – Resume, goal setting

* Wiggins & McTighe “Six Facets of Understanding”

“20 Uses for Wordle”(Clever Sheep Blog)

Research

Wordle Advantages

• Web based– No software to download or purchase

• Easy

• Fun

• Quick

• Works in foreign languages

• Advanced features

• Save & access through username

Wordle Disadvantages

• Few saving choices– Wordle site– Screen shot

• Gallery contains Wordles with inappropriate language– Start at www.wordle.net/create

• Once saved, cannot edit

Wordle Hints

• To keep words together – use quotes”– Use tilde~

• Delete word in Wordle– Right click on the word

Advanced Feature

‘Word Cloud’ Options

• ABC Ya - (http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm)

• Make Word Mosiac – (

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/) • TagCloud - (http://www.tagcloud.com) • TagCloudGenerator – (http://www.tag-cloud.de/)

• Tagul - (http://tagul.com/) • Tag Crowd (http://tagcrowd.com/)

‘Word Cloud’ Options (continued)

• VocabGrabber – (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/)

• Word It Out (http://worditout.com/) • Wordsift - (http://www.wordsift.com/)

Sources

• www.wordle.net

• http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html

• http://centre4.core-ed.net/viewfile.php/users/10/1965015605/Wordle_QST.pdf

• http://static.mrfeinberg.com/bv_ch03.pdf

YouTube Sites

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czup64zYRGo&NR=1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDlFrU4Fh0A&NR=1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxTM-0UaJ0&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Zcjk-nVCk&feature=related