Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, original design by Stamen, press any key to s. Room Lobby - the real online drawing chat with your friends! ScribblerToo :: Mario Klingemann update :: zefrank. Live art that's fun! Wladek (Willy) Art Education 2.0 - Using New Technology in Art Classrooms. Beautiful Word Clouds. Build Literacy Skills with Wordle. I've always been interested in quantitative displays of information. I've been having lots of fun with Wordle - a free website that creates "word clouds" (or "tag clouds") for text analysis. Simply copy/paste text and in seconds Wordle gives you a visual representation of word frequency. The example below was created by analyzing all the words used in my blog in 2008. Click the screen shots below to enlarge.
While you can directly type into the Wordle text box, I would recommend you copy and past text into it. The site allows you to modify the color scheme, font, alignment and even set the maximum number of words to include in the analysis (example top 100 words, top 50 words, etc) For inspiration on layout see these Wordle samples at Flickr Wordle output - If you PDF generating software, you can "print" a Wordle to a PDF file.
So how could your students use Wordle? I've been collaborating with fellow educators on a Google Doc guide to using Wordle in the classroom. Nineteen Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom - Goog. Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles. ART + TECH + EDUCATION - HOME. Odosketch. .: Sumo Paint 2.0 :. Psykopaint Beta 2 - Online photo painting tool.