Individual presentation on web 2.0 tools. This is online tool to create word cloud that can be used in many classroom activities. It is fun working with wordles and improves student's creativity.

1. Wordle
Presented by
Sanjiv Kr. Alay
M.A Eng. III Sem-2012
The English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad- India

2. Wordle
• Wordle was created by, Jonathan
Feinberg in 2008.
• Wordle is an online tool that enables us
to create colourful graphic
representations of texts called word
cloud.
• Wordle will analyze the text and create a
colourfull representation with more
frequently occurring words appearing
much larger than less frequent words.

3. How to create word cloud?
1. Creating Wordle graphic text is very
simple, just go to the Wordle site
(http://www.wordle.net/) and click on
create.
Note:
Creating word cloud
needs java plug-in.

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2. Upload the text by either copy and paste
OR add the URL and then click “Go” OR
use the user name for del.icio.us
account.

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3. Once the word cloud is created, there are few
options for editing. Changing fonts, colours, text
direction and limiting maximum number of
words in a cloud are some of the options.
4. Randomize option gives direct display of
different appearance of the word cloud so that
best one can be saved at once.
3. Word cloud can be printed, saved in the public
gallery and embedded but there is no option to
copy it in other documents.
4. While saving to gallery, gives option to add title
and comments but once it is saved, there is no
option to revert or edit again.

6. Sample Word Cloud

7. Some of the features in Wordle
• Gallery: word cloud created are stored in
this gallery and one can also browse the
sample word clouds.
• Credits: authors acknowledgment
• News: news and other information related
to wordle.
• Forum: discussion of participants
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Question and
some troubleshooting responses.
• Advanced: it is a option to paste /type
weighted words . By giving the ratio to the
word one can decide how large you want it
to appear.

8. How to use wordle with students
• Teaching new vocabulary
• Revision of texts
• Prediction and Pre-reading or introducing
new topic
• Dialogue/ text reconstruction
• Short poems/Haiku
• Text comparison (identifying different
genres) and text analysis
• Personal information
• Wall display and displaying survey result

9. Affordances
As wordle has very few options and features in it,
the affordances becomes limited but the word
cloud can be used for many activities and its fun
using.
Features Affordances
Visual representation of text. Data visualization.
Prediction, pre-reading, Text mining(where to start)
revision of the text and text helps to see ‘big data’.
analyzing.
Prompting ideas, comparing Gives full-text version of the
and contrasting and wall book in a gist.
display

10. Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages Disadvantages
Visually appealing Does not allow editing or
reverting once it is saved.
Fun (randomizing is easy Inappropriate vocabulary
and the possibilities are might be shown
endless)
Has less options and
Handy for self reflection features

11. Conclusion
• Wordle is wonderful tool for creating
word cloud. It can be used in different
ways in the classroom but similar to
other online tools, it must be used with
proper discretion and under teacher’s
guidance.
Thank You!