Wordle rules this category. Wordle almost makes you wish you taught English. With a paragraph of your words, you can create magic. Then you can take your magical design and print it on coffee cups and insert them in all manner of documents.
When I think of Wordle I think of word clouds. Like clouds that challenge your imagination to envision all sorts of floating characters, Wordle uses words as opposed to water droplets to achieve the same thought provoking images for the consumers contemplation.
Wordsift is similar to Wordle only it truly adds a word cloud in the form of a linear map similar to a mind map. I used text from a random blog on education and develop a nice word design, in Wordsift the mind map is made automatically. Wordsift like Wordle offers filter categories to determine the size, spacing, and frequency words are displayed
In class, you could demonstrate the importance of words by having students choose various filters and discuss their relevance. For example the math filter in Wordsift looks for words related to numbers and formulas and then changes their color. In Wordle your students could link word font size to frequency in which the word is used thus arguably liking frequency to importance. I once loaded class syllabus into Wordle to draw attention to TPACK, pedagogy and meaningful learning as points stressed in that particular test.
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These tools could be used by a teacher to facilitate a study in Gardner's multiple intelligences as it relates to visual, audible, and graphic learners.
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