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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.

this is the first draft of a wordle used for an image for a blog posting on the topic of links in an article.

first draft

Wordle of President Obama's speech to students across the U.S. (Wordle #2)

advice on how to add a WORDLE to a PowerPoint

excellent ideas

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

students studying the concept of character; used backgrounds and placed a Wordle on top; very creative project. this is a complex use of image editing and wordle, yet I think it would a great project.

more discoveries of the wonders of WORDLE; excellent blog with information about Flickr Spell

another discovers the wonders of WORDLE; excellent blog with information about Flickr Spell