There are oodles of sites now that express the many ways and benefits of using word clouds.ġ08 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 2 – Michael Gormanĥ Ways to Use Word Cloud Generators in the Classroom by Katie Lepiģ5 Ways of Using Word Clouds in Language Learning by Teacher Gregīeing a librarian, of course, thinking of watermelon I have to mention two books that are fun reads with young readers.
I discovered that I enjoyed Tagul much more than Wordle because of their variety of options and had and easier time embedding my end creation into my blog. Word cloud generators are fun and give the user options to explore their own creativity. I changed up the font, shape and color of the text, tried visualizing it a few times and found a version I liked.Īcrostic watermelon poem written by Lynn Johnson, converted into word cloud at.
I easily created an account at, imported my acrostic poem and wah-lah! had a word cloud. Lucky for me the first one on the list worked. Did you know there are 9 different word cloud generators that aren’t wordle according to Edudemic.
Then I discovered my Silverlight was out of date in Firefox…so I checked out the competition. Then I discovered I couldn’t download Java 7 unless I had Mac OS X Mountain Lion (which I don’t yet). My usual go-to word cloud generator is Wordle, but today I discovered that my Java was out of date in Chrome and Firefox. Then I tried out a new online word cloud generator. And, since it feels as though I can see the 2014-2015 school year screaming down the tracks at me, I thought something fun and summery would be appropriate.īecause I didn’t want to plagiarize someone else’s poetry, I wrote a simple acrostic poem: I haven’t created a word cloud in a long time and since my course (EdTech 537) that has been the original reason for the creation of this blog is almost over, I felt it was time to celebrate with something fun.
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