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Wordle

dawblack posted on September 19, 2008 12:35

image Have you seen Wordle? This site allows users to enter text (usually via Cut and Paste) and then creates a beautiful word cloud based on this text. While this seems like a fun yet frivolous activity, there are some educational connections possible. Here are a few simple examples of how this site could be used:

  • Find the Christmas story from Luke 2 on the Internet. Copy and paste the text into Wordle and create a word cloud. How might the cloud which you created be used to better share this faith story? What if you took the story of Christ's crucifixion and pasted it in Wordle? Other Bible stories?
  • Create a brief biography of yourself. Enter the text into Wordle. In what ways does the word cloud match your personality and interests? In what ways does it not fit you? Explain.

Do you have other simple ideas how this site might be used? Feel free to share them with the larger community as a comment to this post.

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Gail
# Gail
Friday, September 19, 2008 2:20 PM
We had a pastor who used this and imported his whole sermon just to see what words can out as being important enough to be "chosen" . Are you making the point you thought you were making?

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