WORDLE IT!

Wordle is an application that generates word clouds which are pictures made of words connected with each other because of their significance with one another. You can enter your own word clouds composition or ‘copy & paste’ a documenet about a topic, and Wordle will create the pictures words known as word clouds. It’s a great tool to practice in the educational settings because it helps to summarize key ideas. I personally also believe that Wordle promotes collaborative thinking inside the classroom for individual or in groups.

Advantages:

1. Wordle can be customize in size, fonts, color, and the fun part, shapes!
2. Creating word clouds is super fast. Very convenient!
3. Students can easily understand lessons using wordle as it creates the main ideas or words on a specific lesson or topic
4. It’s a entertaining and engaging way to introduce a lesson or providing activities among students

Disadvantages:

1. Wordle is a web 2.0 application; So, additional safety precautions maybe needed when a student uses this application.
2. Wordle does not save the word cloud you’ve created for your file or on your computer. One has to find a way to save word clouds like printscreen and crop, or you may also want to try screenshot end-product. This is one thing that the creator of Wordle needs to embed in the application.
3. One has to have a supported browser that allows Javascript to run. Java is programming language and computing platform which Wordle needs to generate its word clouds.

HOW TO CREATE WORD CLOUDS IN WORDLE

Below is my first wordle word cloud. :) 

Thank you! Until next time! :)