Thursday, November 20, 2008

Wordle

Here's a new Web 2.0 tool. Wordle takes text you input and creates a word image based on frequency (similar to a cloud). Here's one I created based on a few of my blog posts.


Cool, but I was wondering how in the world you could use this in class. A few possibilities: Word poems. Analyzing text (others or your own) for key words/themes. For example, input a politician's speech and see what turns up--it could add an interesting element to a presentation.

3 comments:

  1. Jeri, you have to see this! http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/ It is a timeline of tagclouds for presidential addresses. Use the slider in the top righthand corner to go back in time.

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  2. Wow--cool. I'm really getting intrigued by these things. See latest post! Thanks for the link!

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  3. I like it! I've just started to use bogs with my students this school year and I'm thinking in usig it. Thank you

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