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Wordle

Wordle is a word cloud generator.  Copy in some text and generate the word cloud.
 

Website	www,worldle.net
Cost	Free
Availability	Download
Platform	Windows/Vista and Mac
2007 ranking	-
2008 ranking	-
2009 ranking	30
Directory of Learning Tools	Document and spreadsheet tools

Comments from some of those that selected Wordle as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

• okay, I know I am past 10: wordle: this is just so much fun; great to create artwork for a classroom; I create a poster for outside my class door the first day of class. Sarah Davis
• Word clouds. Nice for topic starters. Leia Fee
• A great web app where you can generate world clouds from the text that you provide. Paste in text, rss url or del.ico.us username. Scott Hewitt
• Jose Picardo
• Input some text, then get a highly visual "word cloud" illustrating which words are most frequently used. Throws out some very interesting results when used with famous speeches, poems, constitutional documents. Rusel Tarr