Wonderful Word Clouds with Wordle

This week began the web 2.0 presentations. The first group up was Wordle, which is a program where you can make word clouds. The program was interesting but I didn't see how it could be super useful in a classroom. The presenting group went over certain things you could use word clouds for like vocabulary lessons or listing student names. I'm sure there are more uses that I'm just missing but at first glance it Wordle didn't seem that useful. I'm sure the word clouds would be great for posters in the classroom which is helpful because I am lacking artistically. I suppose another use would be to use the word clouds to spice up assignments so that its more than just a sheet of paper with directions. I hate that this web 2.0 didn't really excite me too terribly much and hopefully I'll be more excited for the others to come.