Let's Array Words! Wordle!

      Hi all, it's me again! In this post I will write my last assignment and introduce you a new tool that our friends presented in the class. Its name is "Wordle"!


      What is Wordle? –It is a tool which enables its users to generate “word clouds” from the text the user provides. He/she can changes the font and color, decides its layout (vertical, horizontal), and also its language properties including removing common words. 

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 your own desktop to use as you wish.

      You doesn't have to sign up to create a word cloud on wordle. You just click create and start writing the words. That's it, just that simple. You can share your Wordle in any platform as any kind of picture like "*.jpg", "*.png"...


      In language teaching, teacher can use it as a brainstorming board or cloud, if the aim is to teach some certain words than just gives an assignment about the topic that includes creating a word cloud.

Word Cloud of Big Data Technologies

Advantages

• Free to use
• Write a word repeatedly to make it bigger on the cloud
• Easily remove the common words
• Change the colors

Disadvantages

      I couldn't find any disadvantage of this tool. If you think that there is some bad things about it, you can comment under this post.

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