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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.

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

This is a great WORDLE. I noticed the word ortho in there. Must have been discussing gardening. Thanks for the idea. Is this a Plurk rss?

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.

advice on how to add a WORDLE to a PowerPoint

excellent ideas

a Google presentation that combines 43 ways to sue wordle, shared by @g_teach on Plurk

a great array of activities that are together in a Google presentation; many we know about, others are unique. excellent work

A few great ideas for how to display individual student wordles.

Complete sets of Wordles for the American presidents

replurking the presidential address wordles in voicethread. 1st one & 2nd

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