Wordle

My Wordle walkthrough


Wordle's purpose and usefulness in the classroom

• The purpose of Wordle is to give users a simple tool to create a word cloud.
• Teachers can use it to illustrate different ideas in a topic they are teaching. The more you repeat the word in the creation window the bigger it will be in the final Wordle cloud, so teachers can illustrate main ideas with supporting ideas.
• Students can use it i the same way to illustrate print or digital projects. 

Advantages

• Wordle is super simple to use, just type or copy and paste text into a box and hit create.
• It lets you customize the final product through use of different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
• It is light on bandwith and loads pretty fast even on slower conections

Disadvantages

• It uses Java which proved to be a pain to use in Chrome, and a little irritating in Safari.