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Marcel Proust “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but having new eyes.” - Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time). Wordle. “Word Cloud” “amplification of cognition by visual means” Free Web 2.0 Tool - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• Marcel Proust “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but having new eyes.” - Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)
Wordle
• “Word Cloud” – “amplification of cognition by visual means”
• Free Web 2.0 Tool
• Created by Jonathan Feinberg(IBM) and launched in 2008
• “Information Visualization”
• The more frequently the word appears, the larger the font; weight = word count
Editing Wordle
• Font
• Layout– Horizontal vs. vertical– Rounder vs. straighter edges– Maximum words
• Reduce # of words to say 50, from 150
• Color– Preset patterns– Custom palette
Using Wordle
• Save in Gallery– Click Save to public gallery– You will need a username
• Print Screen – Paste into Document
Saving Wordle to the Gallery
• Save to public gallery . . .
• Look up past Wordles with your username
Print Screen
• Click on Print Screen– Upper right hand
corner of keyboard• You may need to use
your function key Fn
• Paste into document– Control V
• Crop • Resize
Wordle Strategies in CTE
• Explain – “Pedal Pulsation” - procedures
• Interpret – Business Ethics
• Apply – Math concepts: ratios in recipes
• Shift Perspective – Branding
• Display empathy – Journaling, Community Service
• Reflectively self-assess – Resume, goal setting
* Wiggins & McTighe “Six Facets of Understanding”
Wordle Advantages
• Web based– No software to download or purchase
• Easy
• Fun
• Quick
• Works in foreign languages
• Advanced features
• Save & access through username
Wordle Disadvantages
• Few saving choices– Wordle site– Screen shot
• Gallery contains Wordles with inappropriate language– Start at www.wordle.net/create
• Once saved, cannot edit
Wordle Hints
• To keep words together – use quotes”– Use tilde~
• Delete word in Wordle– Right click on the word
‘Word Cloud’ Options
• ABC Ya - (http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm)
• Make Word Mosiac – (
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/) • TagCloud - (http://www.tagcloud.com) • TagCloudGenerator – (http://www.tag-cloud.de/)
• Tagul - (http://tagul.com/) • Tag Crowd (http://tagcrowd.com/)
‘Word Cloud’ Options (continued)
• VocabGrabber – (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/)
• Word It Out (http://worditout.com/) • Wordsift - (http://www.wordsift.com/)
Sources
• www.wordle.net
• http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html
• http://centre4.core-ed.net/viewfile.php/users/10/1965015605/Wordle_QST.pdf
• http://static.mrfeinberg.com/bv_ch03.pdf