Wordle

I’ve been reading about this new web 2.0 tool called Wordle that can create tag clouds out of your del.icio.us tags or from any block of text that you wish to enter. Here is the cloud that Wordle made from my del.icio.us tags:

Looks like most of what I’ve been saving lately has to do with Web 2.0!

In a blog posting last week, Joyce Valenza shared the idea of using Wordle to examine famous speeches or students’ own writing to see which words are used the most.

What ideas can you think of for using Wordle with students?