Wordle

 Wordle is a useful application that can be helpful in terms of education. All you have to do is paste a selection of text into the website, or the URL of the website and it will create an image of the main words in the text. This would be particularly useful in an educaional context if an individual has to remember key words, if doing revision for example. It could also be used by teachers, to list words and then pupils could look them up to find out their meaning. The colours of the text, the font and the layout of the words can be changed, vertical or horizontal, or a mixture of both.
   Despite this, there are a few cons about this web 2.0 application. The software Java has to be downloaded onto the computer to create a wordle, and this can take some time to download. Also, in an educational setting there is not that much that you can do with this application.
   Below is an example of the wordle that I created, based on the text that is on my blog.