Wordle

Wordle is a tool to generate “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 whenever you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

How to use it?

 

1- Go to the following website: http://www.wordle.com/and click on Create

2- Choose one of the following options


A- Paste in a bunch of text or,

B- Enter the URL of any blog, blog feed or any otherweb page that has an Atom or Rss feed    

C- Enter a del.icio.us user name to see the tags.

And click on "GO":

3- Once the word cloud is created you can edit it, change its language, font,  layout and colour.

4-You can click on the option Print or the option Save it to public gallery. If you click on "Save to public gallery", you have to give your cloud a title and create your user`s name.

5- Finally you can copy and paste an embed code if you want to share your word cloud

Go to this link  to do an activity http://web20inelt.blogspot.com/2011/11/wordle-activity.html

This Blog will provide teachers with some useful ideas when teaching English and using web2.0 tools. This blog has been created for the subject  ICT in Eglish teaching at UTN/INSPT.

Why using blogs in the classroom?

Dudeney and Hockly (2008) stated that blogs provide a 'real-world' tool for learners with which to practise their written English, as well as a way of contacting learners from other parts of the world if the blog is used as part of an international exchange.

Why should teachers use blogs in the classroom?

Blogs cab be used to connect learners to other communities of learners, for example to a class in another country.
The ideas and content can be generated and created by learners, either individually or collaboratively.