Creating Word Clouds with Wordle

Word Clouds can be a great tool to help students dissect complex text. In a word cloud, the text is arranged and sized based on usage in the particular text. For example, the most frequently used words will be larger and more prominently featured.

Wordle is a Google application that will generate a word cloud based on text you have entered (by pasting the text, or entering a URL for the text location).

Below, you can see an example of a Word Cloud that I created in Wordle based on the text from Obama's speech on race that was delivered at the National Constitution Center on March 18, 2008:

Obama's Race Speech Wordle