Jun 25 2008
Wordle and Gardner
I was reading a post by Gardner Cambell this morning and I am glad that I did. Gardner introduced me to a Web 2.0 tool called Wordle - I must say, Wow. Wordle is a thought provoking tool that provides anyone who views it a visual representation of words. Hmm. It wraps around what we call tags (keywords) and creates an image around them.
Below is a visual representation (word cloud) of my delicious tags. Hmm…
Notice how it takes my tags (key words) and creates a cloud of it. It manipulates the text and wraps them together to create its own meaning.
Gardner in his post, provides a link to a visual cloud of Martin Luther King’s speech, I Have a Dream. I was amazed, what a great way to ‘hear’ this speech - visually.
This has tremendous potential for use in our classrooms. My suggestion, explore Wordle.
