Wordles: Resource for Science and Math Education
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Wordle in Science and Math
Wordle is a great program for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Education Applications
The Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. Therefore, it’s possible to configure an institution’s “site-blocking” software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use.
Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs:
- http://www.wordle.net/gallery
- http://www.wordle.net/next
- http://www.wordle.net/random
and your users will not be inadvertently shown anything that’s not safe for classrooms.
Resources
40 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom
11/10/09 Useful Sites for Science Teachers « Just Call Me Ms Frizzle said,
[...] Word Cloud Generator @ Teach Science and Math [...]
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