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Wordle is back
Category: Learning objects, Software, literacy
The word has been out in recent days that Wordle.net would be unavailable indefinitely until some sort of legal wrangle was sorted out. As one of the very popular Web 2.0 sites that has been adopted by teachers more readily than most, this was quite a blow. Well, let’s celebrate because it’s back!
Thankfully, I didn’t make this discovery before reading the excellent blog post by Philip Bradley – Wordle closed-alternatives where he offers eight alternatives to using Wordle. While they achieve a similar result, the popularity of Wordle has been its absolute simplicity for use in the classroom with no login required, so it’s return is welcomed. Students will once again be able to visualise their essays, book reviews and any other slab of text in a word cloud with emphasis on the most used words.
See Philip’s blog for details on his well researched list of alternatives to Wordle which include: TagCrowd, WordSift, ABCya!, Tagul, WordItOut, ImageChef word mosaic, TagCloud builder, VocabGrabber.
I might mention that when I looked at ImageChef word mosaic, there were some very inappropriate ads on the page, definitely not suitable for school age children of any age. The others all look great! Thanks for the list!
Thanks for the comment sMaddox. I’ve checked it out and find that the advert changes constantly. The one’s I’ve received are OK but I could well understand that anything could appear. Cheers.