The Wordles web site can take any text and turn it into a ‘cloud’ of words which can be displayed as an image in a Glow group. The cloud displays each word in a different size depending on how often it occurs in the original text. Wordle can cope with very large amounts of text, even whole documents. You could copy and paste a discussion thread from Glow into Wordle and create an image reflecting the most common issues in the discussion.

Note that you must attribute http://www.wordle.net/wherever you use your Wordle image.

Create the Wordle

  1. From the file menu, open a new window or new tab in the browser.
  2. Go to the Wordles web site http://www.wordle.net/
  3. Click on the Create button.
  4. Type or paste in some text.    To keep words or phrases together in the Wordle use the ‘tilde’ symbol (~).
  5. Click Go to create the Wordle.

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  1. Use the buttons at the top of the page to change the Language, Font, Layout or colour of the Wordle or use the Randomise button at the bottom of the screen to have Wordle make the changes for you.

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Take a screen capture of the Wordle

The Wordle cannot be saved directly from the web site. Instead you must take a screen capture of it.

  1. When you are happy with your Wordle press the Print Screen key (Fn-Prt Sc keys on a laptop) on your keyboard to save the screen to the clipboard.
  2. Go into the Start menu of your computer.
  3. Go to Programs then Accessories and open the Paint application.
  4. Press Ctrl-V on the keyboard to paste the clipboard information into Paint.
  5. Select the area of the image you want to keep.
  6. Go into the Edit menu and select Copy To….
  7. In the Save as type window select JPEG, if available, to create a smaller file.
  8. If JPEG is not available save as the default 24-bit Bitmap.
  9. Upload the file into an Image, Picture Library or Text Editor web part.

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