Help with Learning the Vocabulary

Here is a fun way to help students remember key words related to classroom activities. It is called Wordle and is free with no login or passwords to remember.

I created the Wordle to the right using key words from the Photoshop Elements class. I found that it required me to think rather seriously about the most important terms used in class.

Begin the fun by having the students go to http://www.wordle.net/create.

• Next, have them enter the important words from the class into the “Paste in a bunch of words” box. The size of a word in the final product is determined by the number of times it is entered.


• Two or more words can be kept together with a space between them by using the tilde (~).


• When finished click on GO.


• The next Wordle screen offers choices for changing the language, font, layout and color. Experimenting with them produces some nice variations. More variations can be seen by clicking the Randomize button at the bottom of the screen.


• Use the Print button to print a copy of the Wordle.


• The Save to public gallery… button places the Wordle on the Internet. Once there, it cannot be changed or removed.


• The Wordle cannot be saved to disk. However, a digital copy can made using a screen capture technique/software.


• If you navigate away from the Wordle you have created, all will be lost, i.e. you will need to start over.