Making and Saving Word Clouds with Wordle

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Making Word Clouds With Wordle

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This presentation steps users through creating a word cloud in Wordle and also saving it.

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Making Word Clouds

With Wordle

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Go to www.wordle.net

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Click Create.

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Add text or a URL.

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Pasted text and click “Go”.

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The word cloud:

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Click Randomize for a new design.

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Click “Color” to pick a new color scheme.

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Click “Layout” to pick a new layout.

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Pick “Font” to pick a new font.

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Click “Save to public gallery” to share it on Wordle.net.

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Fill in the information and click OK.

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Save the URL for deleting it in the future.

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Copy the URL from the code to get the link to your word cloud.

Copy the URL without the quotation marks!

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Take a “picture” of your screen by pressing Alt + PrntScr

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Open up Paint (in Accessories)

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Click “Paste”

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Use the “Select” tool to select the part of the Wordle that you want to save.

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Click “Crop”.

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Save it as a JPEG.

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Now that it’s saved to your computer…

• Insert it into a PowerPoint.• Insert it into a Word document.• Print it out and make it into a poster.• Put in in a blog post on your blog.• You can do anything with it!