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http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a generating “word cloud” from text to add. Wordle is a very useful tool that allows you to
create a word cloud from text. It is very simple to use. You just type or copy text in the word box. The
words type with more frequency will appear larger than the other words. The clouds that can have their
appearance changed by way of fonts, layouts, and colors. You can edit the shape of the cloud and even
remove words you don’t like by right-clicking on them.
Wordle Home Page
First you go to http://www.wordle.net/ to begin.
Select the create tab at the top of the page
or the link on the home page.
Type or paste words/paragraphs of text into the
word box.
When you have all your desired words in the box
select the GO button and your Wordle Cloud will
be created.
Creating A Wordle Cloud
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Customizing Your Wordle Cloud
This is where you customize your
cloud. You can change the language,
font, layout, and color.
Under Layout you can choose:
ABC
Round or straight edges on
letters
The placement of letters
horizontal or vertical
When you make your Wordle Cloud you can only use
the edit button to undo or redo things you have
changed on the cloud, such as language, font, layout,
and color.
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The Language Tab allows you to:
Remove numbers
Remove common words
Leave words as spelled
Make all lower-case
Make all words upper-case
Show word count
By selecting word count you can see the
number of times each word has been
typed when the cloud was generated.
The window below will open with the
words listed and the frequency.
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To change your cloud color:
Select color on the tab and you can choose
from the preset colors or you can select the
custom palette and create your own colors.
Use a Custom Palette
The window above appears first here
you can pick the number of colors
Double click on the square and the
select a color window will appear (pick
your color then select ok)
If you do not want to go through selecting the font,
color, etc. you can always just click on the
randomize button at the button and let the
computer change the view of the cloud.
(you can select it as many times as you desire)
Hot Tip:
Tilde (~) between words to hang them together
(if you want your words to stay together like I did Joshua and
Abigail names to the left)
Abigail~Lee~Barrett or Joshua~Thomas~Barrett
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When you like the cloud and want it
to be the final cloud to publish just
select the button in the lower right
hand corner that says save to public
gallery.
Give your cloud a title and a
username you can identify.
Then select ok
A new window will open with the title and user name of the
creator.
You can always pull up your old wordless by remembering your
username at the end of this URL
http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=
like mine:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=Madison%20TIS
At the bottom of the cloud
in the gallery setting you
will see the code you will
need to embed your cloud
in your blog of website or
you can print your creation.