Thursday, April 9, 2009

Writing - Brainstorming (Part 3)

Hopefully you participated in yesterday's blog post about brainstorming. (If not, please go to that post by clicking here and then coming back to this blog topic.)

We're going to experiment with a website called Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/create). Go to that website by clicking the link. Once there, you'll see a screen like the image shown below.











Type your brainstormed words & phrases (from yesterday's blog post) into the big box and then click the button underneath it that says "Go." Give the website a minute or so to load. (It will take some time for the image to come up, but that's ok!) Once the image loads, scroll down & look below it. There will be a button near the bottom right corner that says "Save to public gallery." Click that and then give your picture a title. For the user name, type in just your first name, and then click "Ok." When your image comes up next, look up top in the address bar of your browser. That's the web address of your image!

Let's see what you come up with in Wordle! Highlight that web address, go up to the "Edit" menu of your browser, click on that, and go to "Copy." Then, come back to this blog, reply to the topic, and paste your web address in the box. (To paste it, click in the blog box like you're going to type in a reply, go up to "Edit," and then go to "Paste.")

Want to see what I did using Wordle? Click here: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/732584/GED_Online

3 comments:

Sandra B said...

Here is my wordle website. Have a look.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/750184/Inspired

Kim Gates said...

Sandra, I love it! Well done!

Anonymous said...

Here is my wordle website.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/762005/Endurance

Allison