Wordle is a site/ 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.
Such word clouds can be used as starter points for a conversation, as they contain the most important words or the most common ones in a text. You can then ask students to build ideas using the words in the cloud, to make up the story. Moreover, such a text cloud could also be used as a summarizing tool, at the end of one of your students' activities, they can summarize their most important ideas on a topic by playing with the tool in order to create a word cloud that would illustrate their work.
The works obtained can then be wither saved as PDF files, through the print button or as images through printscreens. The only condition for the site to work is to have already installed in your computer the Java Platform.
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