Wonderful Wordle
At www.wordle.net/ create “word clouds” from your text.
(This is called “Library Mission” and it really wasn’t that interesting as a text document.)
Use Wordle to create great graphics from essays, speeches, famous quotes – and VISUALIZE what matters most!
The “Tech Learning” blog offered these suggestions for Wordle in writing instruction. wordle-suggestions
To save your Wordle as an image using Word, use these instructions: Tips-for-Wordle (Thanks to Shannon McNeice at Sedgwick.)
To save your Wordle as an image using PhotoShop, follow these steps:
Print screen
Open Adobe Photoshop
File/New
Name the File
Select 1024 X 768
Click on the magnifying glass in the toolbar and expand the screen to 100%
Hit Ctrl V
Select the “crop” tool from the toolbar
Outline what you want to keep
Crop the image by going to “Image” and then selecting “crop”
Save as jpeg or whatever
(Thanks to Sandi Harss at Bristow for these instructions.)
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