'Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.' I quoted this sentence from the website itself. They don't call it 'a tool' for reasons. This 'toy' is exceptionally brilliant. Why did I say so? It can help you to distinguish between the least common words to the most common words in a text in a single click. Furthermore, you can customize the font colour,size and type. You can also modify the layout . For your information, you can use any text, no matter how long it is( Isn't it interesting?). The size of a word in the visualization is proportional to the number of times the word appears in the input text.So, if you type
'football basketball basketball hockey hockey hockey'
into the create page's text field,you will see that basketball's font size is twice football, and hockey''s font size is 3/2 that of basketball's.
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| A sample of wordle. |
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| Features which can be customised. |
Who can use it?
Students of all English language levels and teachers.
How to use it in the classroom?
The teacher could use the Wordle as pre reading activities.For example, students need to predict the main idea of the text from the Wordle. The activity is simple yet really engaging(communicative) activity because the teacher will get lots of answers from the students and I bet the students (even the cheeky one) would love this. Give it a try and leave your comments once you have done it.
OMG.. I do like it..
1) It will cost you nothing(even a penny).
2) Students' attention usually can easily be captivated by fancy worksheets.
3) Wordle reliefs the teachers from stress(it gives them a resource idea)
4) It helps the teacher to create a communicative classroom.
Points to ponder..
1) You cant save it in other format.
2) It needs java plugin but it can easily be installed.
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