Wordle

Hey!

Just wanted to share another tool with all of you! It is called Wordle. Wordle is a visual representation of words.  I never heard of this type of tool until my professor had brought it to my class's attention.  The way it works is that you type in whatever words you may want to represent in a word cloud.  For example, a teacher or a student can use this type of tool for describing themselves, as a welcome sign with student names, to describe a school's mascot or learning vocabulary words.  Other examples include students creating a word cloud of the national symbols in our country or to illustrate a period of time or events on a timeline.

I decided to make a wordle on the national symbols.  Wordle is easy to use for all grade levels and it even helps children to be aware of what their learning about in the classroom. 

Below you will see my sample of a wordle! It did not take long to make, but now the students are able to have a visual of the symbols that will be taught in class.  My dislike would be that I can't arrange where I exactly want the words to go.  One just has to play around with the randomizer until one finds where they want the words to fall.  You are, however, able to change the color of the font and the text font.

My wordle can be used as a game to see how many national symbols they can find.