Wordle
Karen Vitek | October 3, 2008
Wordle is a great tool to work with at all levels and subjects to create word clouds of important vocabulary or important words to illustrate content or important events. It was created by IBM Research Senior Software Engineer, Jonathan Feinberg. You literally can get a pictorial implication of some text by pasting it into Wordle. Here’s the description from the Wordle site:
Wordle is a toy for generating “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 however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Click below to hear an interview with Jonathan Feinberg:
Here’s a Wordle I created using part of the text of a poem by James Russell Lowell titled Vision of Sir Launfal. It’s title is “What is so rare as a day in June?”
