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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.

The two acceptance speeches - click to enlarge

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.

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

Wordle of Sarah Palin's acceptance speech for vice president.

Thanks for sharing the Obama Wordle!

The Power of Words - The students will analyze political speeches for intent based on word usage andconnotation. Students will also discuss the purpose and importance of politicalspeeches in the context of an election.

analysis of Mark Antony's classic speech, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen!

Wordle of President Obama's speech to students across the U.S.

an aggregated group of WORDLEs that encapsulate the American president's inaugural speeches. a simple meta-analysis

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.

Complete sets of Wordles for the American presidents

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

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.

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