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Come see the quick (FREE) wordle I created with the tweets that were generated during this mornings presentation by Ted McCain at the Special Education Teacher Leader Academy in Charleston, WV.

This tools is great to use in so many ways in the classroom – and extremely easy. Check out the gallery for some more inspiration.

Here’s how I did this – all the tweets had the hash mark and tag of #SETLA somewhere in the tweet message. This was agreed upon at the beginning of the conference so we could easily search them out later on. Then I went to the twitter homepage and searched for #SETLA and had returned all the tweets with that tag. I cut and pasted them into Word.

The way that Wordle works is returning a graphic with the most commonly used words in the chosen text with different sizes and colors. I didn’t want the usernames of the tweeters to show up so I used the “find and replace” feature in word for each username and replaced it with an empty space. Then I highlighted, copied and pasted it into the Wordle website and clicked on “GO”. If I liked the created graphic, I could publish it or print it. If I didn’t like it I could change some of the colors and options as well as click ‘randomize’ for a completely different look. If a couple of particular words showed up that I didn’t want, I went back to the Word document and again, used find and replace to delete that undesired word. Copy and paste again back into Wordle.

Like it? Publish it!

If you would like to play a game that an online teacher has created with various Wordles, go over to Guess The Wordle.

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