Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. 

This site can be used in art classes for students that are struggling with the use of text and image. If they can plug in multiple words to wordle, a cloud will be created that selects prominent words. Those that stand out to the student can be the words they choose for a project. 

Or as a teacher, this can be a simple day project if a student finishes with an assignment early. They can choose a topic such as the US Constitution, most common crossword answers, or characteristics of a friend. After the cloud is created, adjusted and finalized, they can print or post the final product to a class blog or add it to a class folder.