I was tagged by Nedra Isenberg and Ann Oro for the Wordle Meme started by Lee Kolbert. So, I took the challenge and here’s mine:
It’s obvious that I talk a lot about student projects on my blog and that’s a good thing since that’s the purpose of my blog. You can tell that the election was a recent subject of posts … and actually of projects in the lab. It will be interesting to see if this changes over time. I’ll have to try this again every few months or so and see.
And now I tag Maddy Shapiro, Michelle Russell and Heidi Pence.
Here are the directions:
1. Create a Wordle from your blog’s RSS feed.
2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises?
3. Tag others to do the same.
4. Be sure to link back here and to where you were first tagged.
I think it’s beautiful! How nice when the Wordle is in sync with our intent, too! Thank you for participating in my meme. It’s been awesome watching it’s progress across the blogosphere. ~Lee
Project also came out loud and clear in my Wordle as well. Winter Wonderland also showed up on mine-looking forward to seeing what you do with your students on that project. Thanks for participating.
This is such a fun way to analyze a large amount of text. I had my students use the notes from a PowerPoint to create a word cloud as the first slide of their presentation. A few of them have already used it at home on their DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) essay which is rather large: 600-1000 words. I agree, it will be fun to check it out again in a few months to get a snapshot in time.