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Wordle Makes Ideas and Concepts Visual

By Bonni Stachowiak | July 1, 2008 | | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Wordle

IMAGE: created using www.wordle.net

I just discovered Wordle, which is a free, web-based tool that allows you to make your ideas visual. You can paste in a paper you've written, a journal, an article, or even a URL to your blog. Wordle then takes all those words and analyzes which ones appear more frequently. The more often a word shows up, the larger it appears in your ‘cloud.'

The cloud above is from this very blog… but you can go and try it yourself with your own words.

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: design, visual thinking, webapps

Bonni Stachowiak

Bonni Stachowiak is dean of teaching and learning and professor of business and management at Vanguard University. She hosts Teaching in Higher Ed, a weekly podcast on the art and science of teaching with over five million downloads. Bonni holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and speaks widely on teaching, curiosity, digital pedagogy, and leadership. She often joins her husband, Dave, on his Coaching for Leaders podcast.

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