While playing around with various sites, I came across wordle.net
It is a fun tool which created "word clouds". The original ones I saw were a speech by McCain and another by Obama. The size of the words is determined by the number of times the word appears in the text. I made one for my Metronet blog and was happy to see that "students" was one of the largest words in my "word cloud". I think this tool would create some very cool posters for a classroom. It would also be cool to compare political speeches.
Click to see my metronet word cloud
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
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Posted by Sarah Rother at 1:07 PM
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That is a really cool site. It would be neat to use it with a group of students to make word art from (otherwise potentially uninteresting to students) political speeches and history. Neat idea!
Your wordle would be a beautiful poster! It's amazing what you are discovering on the Net.
Cool beans! I love this site. I had seen word clouds like this of some speeches from history, but I love that it can be used to analyze one's own writing. What a great tool for language arts teachers!
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