Wednesday, January 26, 2011

State of the Union - the Wordle!

Have you ever seen a "Wordle"?  Basically it takes a bunch of text - think a speech, essay, story, etc. - and pulls out words from it that are used more than once!  So, if you mention a certain word a lot, it will be bigger....

Below is a Wordle I made from President Obama's State of the Union address,which we watched a bit of in class...

From Mr. Sheridan's Class

Notice how the words "America", "people", and "new" are bigger than the rest?  He said those words more than the others!  (Oh, and a Wordle doesnt count words such as "and", "I", "if", "or", and so on  - only bigger words. 

What do you think?

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