Wordle is an amazing tool that I have used in the graphic design part of my life…I didn’t realize that it had great applications for education as well.

Wordle creates word clouds based on word usage frequency in a body of text. All you need to do is paste in the text and click “Go” to create a beautiful and data rich graphic which can be used in multiple settings. I created the below for the Chumash (Five Books of Moses) and plan to use them in teaching these text. The visual representation of the text by word frequency allows students to easily identify most frequently used words and concepts.

Breishit

Shmot

Vayikra

Bamidbar

Devarim

Using Mechon Mamre and Hebrew Books, you can create word clouds for just about any Jewish text and allow students to build their own vocabulary study guides…let me know of any projects you come up with in the comments!