Thursday, May 28, 2009

Cool Tool for the End of School

Can words paint a thousand pictures?

With the school year ending, creating a word-cloud for your child at wordle.net can help you express the personal growth you’ve seen in them this year and affirm his/her efforts. Best of all—it’s free!

I created a word-cloud for each member of my family earlier this year. Everyone loved comparing the words I had selected for each individual family member. In fact, several are still displayed on family member’s desks!

Instructions for creating a personal word-cloud:

  1. Type a list of the qualities and accomplishments your child has developed this year. The list can be as long as you wish. Include your child’s name.
  2. Separate individual words with commas and place a tilde character ~ between words that go together. (For example: packing~your~own~lunch)
  3. Duplicate any words or phrases that you want to appear larger. (The more times they appear in your list, the larger they will be in the word cloud.)
  4. Now paste the whole list into the “create” box at www.wordle.net and select “go.” You have created a beautiful word cloud for your child that can be rearranged, colored, and printed.

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