The Word Made Flash
After playing with it a bit, I’ve decided Wordle is just plain neat. Being a fan of words and visual poetry, I love that you can create some really interesting visuals with words. Here’s the first one I created by importing my del.icio.us tags:
And here’s one I created using the entire text of this blog:
You can change the color scheme, the font, the way the word cloud lays out, and more. The only downsides: you need to have the latest version of Java (OK, so that’s not really that big a deal), and as far as I can tell, the only way to save the images to your computer so far is by doing a screen capture. Still, this could be awfully addictive!
Josh:
I can see so many possiblities. Either one would make the perfect bookmark for services offered from your library.
Love,
Darlene (Mom)
Darlene, what a great idea! You could put, say, the library’s mission statement or some promotional text about library services into Wordle, and then turn the image into a bookmark. Fantastic!