Wordle
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Using Wordle to generate a visual of words is a fun process. Students really enjoy see their words take shape literally. Its a great tool for displaying student writing in a creative way. I love using Wordle in my classroom and for assignments. I had some difficulty with generating a Wordle this time, but was able to use Internet Explorer. If Mozilla doesn't work switch to internet explore is my recommendation. I had a lot of fun changing my word cloud around. I like how you can delete certain words and also highlight certain words. One thing that is complicated is keep phrases together. I think that using quotes helps. It also helps to use periods after phrases so Wordle doesn't connect two different thoughts even if each one is a fragment. The best part is playing around with the text and color and creating bunch of different word clouds for the same text. I would also suggest writing the text on another document because you can not go back and edit what you have put in once you click submit. Enjoy my education Wordle below.