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using survey answers from beginning of class in a wordle.

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.

"Doesn't each writer hope that people find their blog interesting and helpful? I believe the answer is yes. Besides writing an interesting article, it helps to make the blog posting accessible through the reader's use of search engines and access to related articles as they read your blog posting."

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

Great way to check the content of your blog posts...

Yes, Diane. I've suggested that teachers might use it as an assessment, or at least a check for students to use to see what their writing is REALLY about...

"Lock Your Doors" WORDLE from a blog post on ethics in social networks; how to counter spammers, phishers and thieves. -n2teaching 0 minutes ago"

I make WORDLES to determine if I'm really using the words that belong to the main idea or topic of the blog post. You can do this with your students or use it yourself to improve writing.

"Wordle - educational uses"

this speech was recommended by our colleague Simon Brown, so I wodled it.

Australia Day Address 2009 by Kevin Rudd

open, updated, passionate view of Australians and Australia Day.

Hillary Clinton addresses State Department

This is her introductory address laying out her goals, hopes and presidential commitment to State Department's mission. -n2teaching

I enjoyed listening to her speech, so much I wanted to share this wordle.

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.

Wordle is a neat application that allows you to paste text in and it will create a tag cloud formation with the most used words appearing larger than others.

My first contribution to the UTechTips site!
On to the Tips…

Apparently, I am very late on the bus with this particular tool

However, I looked at whether it had been covered on UTechTips and I think that often with Web 2.0 tools, we find that we are bringing in new readers in our faculty ALL THE TIME. So how do they go back and discover new tools or read some of the great posts of our past?

You can make a list of all the WORDLE group bookmarks, and then embed a webslide. Or you can just use this one.

Interested in learning more or sharing your WORDLES? Now, you can access the Diigo WORDLE Group.

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

advice on how to add a WORDLE to a PowerPoint

excellent ideas

text that I used about 30 minutes after Obama's 2008 election acceptance speech; here is the focus of his words to the American people.

really cool content visualization tool Wordle. The resulting tag cloud