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Wordle created from the text of McCain's concession speech; from a Plurk message that I didn't bookmark.

use this as a compare/contrast of Obama's and McCain's acceptance/concession speech

I totally agree with your comment about WORDLE serving to highlight the commanlities. As an EFL teacher, I tend to focus a lot on the common words in English, as these are the words that define our fluency in the language. I use the BNL2709 vocabulary profiler for this at http://lextutor.ca/vp/bnl -- when you compare McCain and Obama's use of the most common words in their speeches, it can be a good starting point for a compare/contrast analysis which is accessible to most EFL students (well, those above B1 on the CEFR scale). When I get a good result for a WORDLE, I save it to the public gallery. Perhaps interesting to view WORDLEs focusing on the common words in English below with your WORDLE of unfiltered words in the McCain speech in mind. Compare the two WORLDEs http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/289555/Obama_Speech_5-11-08_-_BNL2709 http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/289552/McCain_Speech_5-11-08_-_BNL2709 Notice the differences in frequency of words in both speeches (campaign, bless, nation, unite, promise, achieve, white). Also of note are the words that appear in one and not the other like fail, victory, generation. :) Creating complementary WORDLEs like this can be another useful way to explore the compare/contrast issue that you mention.

a WORDLE created from the publisher's weekly review in @janning's Liar website; there are several other WORDLEs created from book reviews of Liar

one of the WORDLES @janning created from book reviews

a wordle of the preface text of the 2005 book, View from Hubbert's Peak; topic is peak oil theory and it's sign of existence.

An example of maniupulting the output from a collocates/pattern table in Just the Word as input for the ADVANCED feature of WORLDE.

Hi Sheryl - glad you found it useful. You are quite right about the spreadsheet idea...I tend to use EXCEL and some of the basic TEXT, LOOKUP and FILTER options to manipulate lexical data I get from various sources. I did leave several suggestions for PHIL at the JustTheWord user group in GOOGLE to make the 'mash up' between JTW and WORDLE more seamless. But, as you suggest, copying and pasting the data into a spreadsheet is the only way to do this at the moment. Spreadsheets aren't everyone's cup of tea, but perhaps we could provide a template for the faint at heart, which can make it easier.... I also use the same technique to extract 'sets' from Mark Davies corpus sites at http://corpus.byu.edu as well as vocabulary profiles at Tom Cobb's Lextutor site at http://lextutor.ca -- Of course, PC-based software like ANTCONC and ANTWORDPROFILE also output data that can easily be manipulated into the ADVANCED feature of WORDLE. Here are some WORDLEs in my public gallery that show the results...the ones contrasting OBAMA and McCAIN speeches are quite interesting. http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=BNL2709 My background is EFL, so I find other sources of lexical sets like http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=mouse&btn=Shrink+Set+%28to+15+items+or+fewer%29 also useful as input to WORDLE. :)

I'll look over these resources. Yes, I made WORDLES of Obama and McCain. I think one reason these types of web applications are so interesting is to view the ways in which we teach and learn....what our commonalities are.

This is ONE good method of acquiring a high resolution .jpg of a WORDLE; others are provided in our WORDLE BOOKMARKS.

NOTE: Update- you can paste a [Prt Scr] into Paint , save as a .jpg and then crop w/ ANY phot editing software; ****to get high resolution jpg from Wordle Cloud need to print to pdf, then import to Photoshop.

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using survey answers from beginning of class in a wordle.

Idea posted to a blog about using Wordle for getting the gist of a weather forecast. The author has taken the words from a weather forecast and asks the students why they think certain words are larger than others.

This week's tip features a web tool that will create word clouds from text you provide. The more frequently a word appears in your source text, the larger it will be in the cloud. With this clever tool you can even change fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Excellent all-around resource on WORDLE.

Plurk post from n2Teaching requesting others to give her links to Wordles.

interactive tools and ways to use them in school libraries. Wordle - creates word clouds from pieces of text, rss feeds or tag clouds. Higher-frequency words become larger than others, providing a visual demonstration of their probable importance.

It's like the central themes of the text, surrounded by their context, almost leap off the page and hit the viewer like a perspective from another dimension. this is not an education post, yet I like the wordles of Martin Luther King, Jr (I Have a Dream) speech and others

It's like the central themes of the text, surrounded by their context, almost leap off the page and hit the viewer like a perspective from another dimension.

Wordle for the group icon.

here is a wordle made to use as an icon. I tried to focus on three words from description of the diigo group, so they would be noticeable in the Wordle group icon. We'll see

great example of WORDLE, yet you will have to join this wikispace to see/learn from it.

ask to join this wiki, so you can see the wordle training.

A wordle created w/ the topic of Peak Oil. Peak Oil is a common concern and a scientific theory that would be an excellent topic for science teachers from middle school and up to discuss or teach about in the science class.

librarian's take on WORDLE, Many Eyes and other data visualization techniques from September, 2008

a wordle Ben Hazzard made from his master thesis text on crossclassroom facilitating

Transform your text into word clouds! Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Make and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut!