Wordle’ Clouds

Wordle.net, a website listed in the Callow (2007) reading, is self-described as a “toy for creating word clouds’ (Wordle.net). I immediately entered a favourite poem to see what “cloud’ would appear, tweaked the fonts, layouts and colour schemes to be rewarded with an interesting poetic image which I imagine could be useful as a thematic stage 3 literacy backdrop. Words can be enlarged and emphasized through repeated typing. As a teacher Wordle can be safely used in the classroom as it is possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use. You can print your creations by taking a “screen shot’ and then use then on fabric, postcards, business cards, posters etc. It has multiple uses across all KLAs as students can create their own ‘word clouds’ based on subject vocabulary or texts.