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Cetakan Pertama/First Printing 2011

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Diterbitkan di Malaysia oleh/Published in Malaysia byPUSAT PEMBANGUNAN AKADEMIK

UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor D.E., MALAYSIA

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Web 2.0 Tools in Education: A Quick Guide

Mohamed Amin Embi

ISBN 978-983-3168-16-3



CHAPTER 18

- WORDLE -

What is Wordle?………………………………………………....…………....200

Ways of using Wordle………………………………………….........................200

Get started with Wordle……………………………………………………..201

References…………………………………………………………………….203



200Chapter 18:Wordle

W HAT IS W ORDLE?

Wordle is a tool that looks at the text provided (students can type in words that

describe themselves; words that describe what they want to learn; words that

describe a time in history they are learning about; their vocabulary words they are

having a difficult time with; words that describe a country they are learning about)and generates a “word cloud” summary from those words. The word cloud gives

greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You

can change the font , change the layout, and change the color scheme. Once you

have created your “word cloud” the students can take a screenshot to save and

paste into an application or save to Paint/Photoshop to then save as a jpg image to

use in a project — PowerPoint, Slideshare, PhotoStory, Blog, Wiki, etc. Or, they can

choose to print it out and make a bulletin board in the classroom of the words.

W AYS OF USING W ORDLE

The following are some possible ways of using Wordle:

1. Summarizing the content of an essay or any piece of work. Useful way of

telling people what the essay is about.

2. Wordle can be used by the teacher as a means of assessment. Student creates

a Wordle of their presentation and uses that as the basis for a discussion.

3. Self Reflection.

4. Summarizing survey results from text fields.

5. Illustrate a student’s writ ing with a picture (Julia 2009).

6. Improve vocabulary and develop knowledge by taking the text from

documents or webpages and makes them into word clouds to help remember

the texts you read (Nik Peachey 2008).

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GET STARTED W ITH W ORDLE

Go to: http://www.wordle.net/

Starting W ordle

Click here.

STEP 1

STEP 2




Start Creating your W ordle

Paste the text in

this box.

Click ‘Go’.

An example of

texts, pasted in

Wordle.

STEP 3




Generating W ord Cloud

REFERENCES

Julia Zangl Colby . 2009. Wordle — An Easy Tool t o Use for Teachers and Students

http://jzcolby.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/wordle-an-easy-tool-to-use-for-

teachers-and-students/ [24 March 2011]

Nil Peachey. 2008. Using a Word Cloud to Remember Words and Texts. http://daily-

english-activities.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-word-cloud-to-remember-words-

and.html [24 March 2011]

Wordle. http://www.wordle.net/ [24 March 2011]

You can click on‘Randomize’ to

generate a different“look” to your Wordle.

Save the Wordle inthe public gallery

and use the embedcode to show in your

blog, wiki, or web

page.

You can customize your Wordle using this tools.

STEP 4

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