Wordle

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.

1. Open a Word document and type in your word selections OR type directly into Wordle and remember to copy after each edit.


2. Open Wordle from the Internet


3. Select Create


4. Paste your words, check the ~ mark for extra spacing


5. Select GO


6. Adjust the Font, Color, Layout


7. Print Screen Hot Key (upper right, next to F12)


8. Open Microsoft Office Picture Manager (icon in Taskbar)


9. Paste, make sure you are on the desktop folder in the list on the left


10. Crop the image:
    
    
    
    1. Edit Pictures
    
    
    2. Crop- Drag in to crop
    
    
    
    


11. Select OK and it will crop


12. Save it --> File, Export ..  Select Location, Name it, Select JPEG format


13. OK


14. Insert it into your Post!

HINTS:

• Make sure you always copy your text before you hit GO. You CANNOT edit it later.


• Word document will let you spell check


• Word allows you to not worry about copying


• The more times you type in the same word the BIGGER it gets


• Use the tilde character ~ between words that go together. Nancy~Gorneau the tilde will be replaced with a space. You will need to check when you paste that there is no extra space


• Commas, semicolons; and paragraph marks  are all seen as a space