Wordle is a world cloud website that allows user to generate a word cloud from a specific text. The clouds display words within the text and adjust its size based on the frequency of the word in the source text. The more frequent the word is in the text, the bigger the display of the word would be. Wordle allows us to costumize our world clouds with different layouts, fonts and color. Watch tutorial video about wordle below.
What does it do?
As it has mentioned before, teachers can use Wordle to set a visual display of of how
often a word appears in an assigned text.
What are the benefits for your classroom?
Teaching vocabulary: Wordle can be use to be display in front of the class for guessing the topic of the lesson, pre-task activity or simply for introducing new words.Engaging : This tool is visually engaging, students will enjoy making diagrams and see which words appear most in a text. It allows users to format layout, and font as well as adjusting color even removing particular words
Easy and Free: Wordle is a free and very simple website where users can easy navigate thus most group of learners will find this website user-friendly.
Accommodating learning styles: With the use of different colours and size. Students especially with visual intelligence can make use the most of wordle through their eye-catching illustrations especially when learning about vocabulary.
What are the limitations?
Support: The site is no longer supported, thus we might expect no update and assistant for anyone who uses it.
Information: The site does not provide information relating on how to use the website, such as to make diagrams.
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