Wordle - All talk but no action...

Wordle is an online program, allowing for the generation of word clouds to be designed. The size of each word in the cloud correlates with the amount of times the word appears in the text you've chosen, with the bigger words appearing more in the text.

A Wordle based on an article about tennis player Novak Djokovic

Whilst looking nice, I can't imagine that this is something I'd use too much in my teaching. I don't think my students would see the value of it, as they are mostly information driven. This program's only output is highlighting the frequency of words, albeit in the pretty fashion. In the PCET sector, I can't imagine many subjects that a Wordle would really advance learning. Perhaps in some form of Graphics degree, where the creativity would be useful. Apart from that, I don't see it as an appropriate learning tool,

Furthermore, it can't be used in Google Chrome. My personal laptop uses Google Chrome, and it also the preferred browser in the college I lecture in. This would mean that creating a Wordle would probably be more effort than it's worth.

All in all, it's a nice application to waste some time on, but not much more than that (in a teaching sense)