Word Love
Here’s something for all of you out there who love words, graphic art or procrastination.
It’s called Wordle:
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The site description says, “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.”
When my daughter was around one, I typed in the words that she used or that I felt described her and I printed it out. It is a piece of art that captured who she was at that age. To me, it is priceless.
You could cut and paste in song lyrics, magazine articles, speeches…
Have fun, and if you would like to share your creations with the rest of us, send the link or pdf to iheartmudflats@gmail.com!
July 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Very cool. I will play with that as soon as I get a chance. Wondering if it’d make cool cards?
July 27th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
That is awesome! I used a letter I e-mailed to my Congressman. I hope he enjoys his copy as much as I did!
Seriously, I can’t wait to have my 4 yr old granddaughter over. We write stories on the computer to help her learn letters, words, logic and problem solving so I can’t wait to see her reaction to one of her stories being written as a cloud! We will have a blast putting all the words back together, but Grandma is letting her cut all those words apart
Thanks so very much for sharing this site!!!!
pj