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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Week 7, Thing 18--Wordle

Wordle is a word wall created on "the cloud."  Easy and quick for spelling, language arts, vocabulary and any other subject that needs a word wall created.  It can be printed and published but the program does not save it. To keep a copy of it on the computer for later use you would need to make a copy of the screen (Fn Key + F11 Key).  (Note: When I used those keys my laptop didn't seem like it made a copy of the screen.  However, when I went to paste,  it was there.)  Next you need to open up the Paint Program in Accessories and paste the photo in.  Then select Save As, name your photo and be sure to change the file to a JPEG file.  Save it and when you open it up, it will open in Microsoft Office Picture Manager.  Look for the Crop button to crop of the parts you do not want...then save for a clean sharp picture to use as you would like.  This sounds like a lot but once you do it a couple of times it will be easy.   Once your Wordle is made Randomize it to see the variety of Wordles from the same list of words.  Pretty cool.

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