Just for fun! Wordle

This is the description of the website copied directly from the site.

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”  

This application has potential to create custom holiday cards, invitations to events, or graphics for your custom calendar. Create one and frame it for your child’s teacher. Let your imagination soar and have some fun.  If you have a list of words you want to specifically appear, inserting the one you want to hold a place of prominence more times than others will do the trick.  After you have created your word cloud use the Edit, Layout, Language, Color and Font options to customize it even further.

Because Wordle runs in a Java Applet the only way to copy it is by using the screen shot method.  Using an application like SnagIt make doing the screen shot very easy.  Even without a SnagIt the Print Screen button will copy the entire screen.  The image can then be pasted into any application.  PowerPoint makes editing the graphic easy with the crop features.  The FAQs for Wordle also have some tips for copying the images.