Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wordle Wizardry




Wordle has become a popular way to see the power of language. Users can add text to let the site configure a wondrous visual of their composition. This activity has great potential for students to study their vocabulary and diction. After viewing a Wordle one can get an impression of the entire composition and the dominate message. It could teach the value of revising, extending vocabulary, and emphasizing key ideas..

The first Wordle image is of my main impression after one year of blogging. It enables one to create, empower, learn, and share. Also I typed in several quotations and emphasized key words to vary the size of the print. Rich, meaningful graphics can be created.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. ~ Carl Sandburg

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

(I'm sorry that I couldn't produce large screen images. For that reason I just chose a few words to use so that they could be legible.)

Wordle also has exciting potential for personal and commercial applications.

Thanks Ken Allan for this meme tag who in turn was tagged by Andrea Hernandez.

1. Create a Wordle from your blog's RSS feed.
2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises?
3. Tag several others to do the same.
4. Link back to the two taggers before.

I respectfully tag Richard Millington and Kate Tabor.

3 comments:

Kate Tabor said...

Tagged, I'm it! Give me a day or so, but I'm up for it. I use Wordle in class, so I'm interested to see how this looks.

paul c said...

Hi Kate,
I look forward to your Wordle. Thanks for taking part.

Blogger In Middle-earth said...

Kia ora Paul;

Thanks for the link. You certainly found out how to embed Wordles, and you've had some fun I see.

Yes words ARE fascinating, which ever way you look at them.

Last year someone showed me this interesting phenomenon:

By jmuilbng the ltetres of a senecnte but kpeneig the fsirt and lsat ltteres in pacle you can sltil raed the ssene of the wrods. Tihs aplipes to aomlst any sectleoin of wdros. It'snt it sanrtge?

The brain is an amazing piece of equipment. Probably the most complex I've ever come across. What do you think?

Catchya later
from Middle-earth