Wordle

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__** O verview**__

 Wordle is a pretty straightforward Web-based tool that helps you create text-based designs. the Java-based program randomly arranges and colors words and backgrounds to produce unique word pictures ("word clouds"). A word cloud is a visual depiction of a set of related tags with corresponding weights (that is, it amplifies word sizes based on frequency). It can be used as a verbal-ranking or categorization tool. The site contains a gallery, forum, FAQs, and news pages, as well.

__**Step-by-step**__


 * 1) First, click the "Create" button.
 * 2) Next, type directly into the text box (or cut and paste text from another source).
 * //Or//, "Enter the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed."
 * //And/or//, "Enter a del.icio.us user name to see their tags."
 * 1) Click the "Go" button to let the program design/arrange your words randomly.
 * 2) If you like the first display . ..
 * Click "Save to public gallery."
 * Before it's posted, you can also give it a title, tag it with a name, or add a comment.
 * 1) If you want to play around with the design a bit before saving, though . ..
 * Under "Language" there are several options, like change case and . (We, for instance, checked "Remove common English Words" which is also a default setting.)
 * Under "Font" you can change the lettering.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 15px;">When you double-click (right click on PC?) a Wordle, it changes its letters to outline form instead of solid letters.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 15px;">Under "Color" you can change the words' hues, variation, etc..
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 15px;">Under "Layout" you can adjust the directions of the words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 15px;">To remove individual words, right-click them (on PCs)[|Podcasts] for the option.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">**__classroom uses*__ "Normalcy, Never Again" **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> create artwork from words [[image:http://486web20sec002.pbworks.com/f/1297520649/Wordle%201.PNG width="381" height="264"]]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">assessment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">text analysis (highlight themes, identify repetition, etc.)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">__**artifacts**__

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Upon Prof. Britt's suggestion, we copied and pasted the text of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Normalcy, Never Again" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">speech (more popularly known as "I Have a Dream").

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 17px;">And, in honor of today, we also plugged in a passage from the Shakespearean sonnet, "Venus and Adonis," <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">along with a few extra words (see if you can figure out what we added):

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">(When you have more time, read the entire poem; it contains what may be the bard's most graphic depiction of titillation—tee-hee!)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">**"Venus and Adonis"** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Happy Valentine's Day! (Or . . . enjoy the Broken Hearts Ball.) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">And, more importantly, Celebrate Black History Month!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">__**PROS**__
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">You can make cool designs with very little expertise.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">You can link to your creation in the public folder.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Lets you print your image with one click ("Print" button), or open in a new window.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">You can post anonymously (no account required).

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">__**CONS**__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">HyperText Markup Language
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">It seems that you cannot save a draft of your current settings to tinker around with later—you must simply "save to public gallery" and put it out there.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">You cannot easily export or drag a final image to your desktop (i.e., JPEG, etc.). You must use a separate screen image capture program to create a separate document (poster, etc.).
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">There was nowhere (unless you peruse the FAQs) that hyped the feature of enlarging the most frequently used words in a chunk of text. We wouldn't have known if Prof. Britt hadn't told us.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Unless you know how to create more customized versions (under "Advanced") you must rely more on the randomization feature, so you never know what you're gonna get. (Although you can always noodle around with it after it's been randomized.)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">To use the Advanced settings, one must know more than basic HTML

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