NOT ON THE LIST IN 2019

Wordle lets you generate word clouds from text that you provide. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes.

Website: wordle.net
Cost: Free.
Availability: Online

Past Overall Rankings
2018: 149    2017: 140     2016: 111      2015: 96     2014: 73     2013: 73
2012: 79      2011: 39       2010: 33        2009: 30     2008: –        2007: –

Comments from some of those that selected Wordle as one of their Top 10 Tools

• “For creating attractive slides show key words as well as relative importance of each. Colourful. Flexible. Easy to use.” John Thompson, University/College teacher, Canada,  2016
• “Using Wordle is a great way to see the major themes and ideas in an article.” 2015
• “a creative way for students to brainstorm and synthesize” Diane Lowery 2014
• “this is just so much fun; great to create artwork for a classroom; I create a poster for outside my class door the first day of class” Sarah Davis
• “Word clouds. Nice for topic starters.” Leia Fee
• “A great web app where you can generate word clouds from the text that you provide. Paste in text, rss url or del.ico.us username.” Scott Hewitt
• “Input some text, then get a highly visual “word cloud” illustrating which words are most frequently used. Throws out some very interesting results when used with famous speeches, poems, constitutional documents.” Rusel Tarr