It seems the wildly popular and teacher friendly web based text cloud generator site is down. There is a copyright issue with the name “Wordle” and while the issue is being taken care of you won’t be able to access http://wordle.net
There are other places where you can creae “Word Clouds.” While wordle is my favorite, you might find “Word It Out” to be similar. At the time I am writing this, “Word It Out” is loading incredibly slow, presumably due to all the wordle traffic heading there.
Click here for an interesting and helpful article that listed twelve sites for creating word clouds. Each offers something slightly different than the others, including one that enables you to specify the shape of the cloud, by Image Chef and another that allows you to create links to definitions on the word cloud. (Lots of other fun projects on Image Chef, too. I enjoy the image creator, that is another subject though.)
The post also has interesting project ideas for wordle, handy for when the site is back up and running.
Note: Looks like Wordle is back up and running.
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