Material Detail
Wordle
Tool that allows the user to insert text and create a word picture or word cloud. It is a visual opportunity to see the importance of words in a particular instance.
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- Material Type:
- Animation
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- September 9, 2008
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- June 19, 2019
- Author:
- Jonathan Feinberg, IBM Research
- Submitter:
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Jane Moore
- Primary Audience:
- Grade School, Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
- Technical Format:
- Other
- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
- Source Code Available:
- No
- Creative Commons:
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This work is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States
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Comments
Jane Moore (Faculty)
Wordle is a great tool for brainstorming. You can take minutes in a session and then pop the text into Wordle and provide a word picture that tells the tale of the discussion.
Technical Remarks:
You can use a screenshot of the Wordle cloud rather than posting on the site if you prefer.
Used in course?
Yes
Time spent
reviewing site:
Several hours.
Corrie Bergeron (Content Developer/Instructional Designer)
A wonderful tool for creating "word clouds" from text. You paste in a bunch of text - a poem, perhaps, a Presidential speech, a chapter from a book, anything. The more times the word appears in the text, the larger the font. You can play with the font face, color, and text orientation sixteen ways from Sunday. You can also print now - you don't have to take a screen shot.
A colleague doing her doctoral research on educational leadership interviewed a number of college presidents and provosts about their philosophies of educational leadership. The transcripts produced beautiful maps of their committment to students and learning. She printed them out in color, framed them, and gave them as gifts to the interviewees.