Create beautiful word clouds. Most of you will know of this but may have not used it recently so a reminder for you all. This is a great activity for introducing key words into an inquiry unit.
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Instructions
1. Goto http://www.wordle.net/ or click on Wordle graphic
2. Click on create
3. Key in an appropriate number of words to form the word cloud.
4. Key words can be enlarged by just repeat typing the word. (Does not have to be consecutive)
5. To keep two words linked in the wordle, use the tilda key between the words eg word~cloud
Creating Your Word Cloud
1. When complete, hit "go" button
2. Java will convert the words into a cloud. Press randomize until you are happy with the effect, or manually change the colours and font style.
3. If you press” save to gallery”, the next screen will give an embed code for online use in eg blogs, wikis, but this tends to be quite small, so it is better to get a screen shot and convert to an image file
Saving An Image
1. Press prt scr or print screen key on keyboard
2. On pc's, go to MS Paint then edit then paste and the wordle appears
3. Using the cropping tool, select the wordcloud then right click and copy or go to edit then copy then go to file then new then do not save changes then edit then paste.
4. Save as a jpg file ready for use in MS Word, or Powerpoint or other software types.
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