Fun little toy: wordle

[Derek Chirnside]

I was thinking about the facilitator/modertator/teacher thing, and starting off classes or events online with newbies, crerating a sense of identity and online presence . . . . 

 

Found this:

 

http://wordle.net/

 

The official blurb: Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

 

Actually more than a toy.

--
From Derek Chirnside.

[minh mcCloy]

i've been playing with wordle & made individualised clouds that i was able to present to some folks who had worked intensely to organise a celebration of refugees. The wordle cloud reflected each person efforts & priorities while encapsulating the group context & teamwork -itz a very cool tool

:)
minh

[minh mcCloy]

And then there's this one:

http://taggalaxy.de/
a whole new relationship with flickr images
:)
minh

[Derek Chirnside]

Minh - cool.

You have used the word 'celebration',  So we can celebtrate online, and I think this is such a quick neat way to do it.
The other activity it supports is 'Fun'.  :-)

Here is my question: what is the energy barrier to a newbie?
How did it go?

And I will check out http://taggalaxy.de/

-D

2008/7/5 minh mcCloy <miz...@gmail.com>:

--
From Derek Chirnside.

[alexanderhayes]

Cool.

I'll add it to my wikipage. I wonder if we could make it work as a
personal informatic -
http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/polite-pertinent-and-pretty-designing-for-the-newwave-of-personal-informatics-493301

On Jul 5, 8:50 am, "Derek Chirnside" <derek.chirns...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[alexanderhayes]

Nice one.

Added it to the list - http://alexanderhayes.wikispaces.com/weboffice

On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, "minh mcCloy" <mizm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And then there's this one:
>
> http://taggalaxy.de/
> a whole new relationship with flickr images
> :)
> minh
>

> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:19 PM, minh mcCloy <mizm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i've been playing with wordle & made individualised clouds that i was able
> > to present to some folks who had worked intensely to organise a celebration
> > of refugees. The wordle cloud reflected each person efforts & priorities
> > while encapsulating the group context & teamwork -itz a very cool tool
>
> > :)
> > minh
>

> > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Derek Chirnside <derek.chirns...@gmail.com>

[etalbert]

Hi there

Wordle and tagcloud are fascinating little tools. I tried to put my
del.icio.us tags into wordle and had no luck. I'm up for another try.

What clouds have others tried to produce?

Elaine

On Jul 5, 8:50 am, "Derek Chirnside" <derek.chirns...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[lsnb...@gmail.com]

I created a cloud loosely based on the table of contents for the
textbook for a web design course that I teach:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/53207/Web_Development_and_Design_Foundations_with_XHTML_
.

Textbook:
Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML -- http://webdevfoundations.net

I thought it would be fun to enlarge and print the Wordle to display
in the classroom.
The Wordle also might be useful to jumpstart a discussion about course
topics (either in the classroom or online) but I haven't quite worked
it though yet. :-)

Terry Morris

[Kim FLINTOFF]

I've added Einstein's Theory of Relativity, a Shakespearean play, and a few
other literary works from Project Gutenberg.. quite interesting to see what
terms come through as dominant...

Might put in my M.Ed thesis next... and my working draft of my PhD
exegesis...

Kim Flintoff

Hi there

Elaine

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5:26 AM

[minh mcCloy]

This is a link to a wordle tag cloud that Stephen Downes made of June 13 issue of OL Weekly. This was my first sighting of a wordle. Isn't 'wordle' an excellent neologism? It seems to be satisfyingly apt.
:)
minh

[minh mcCloy]

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/56079/wordle_chat1

this is a wordle cloud i made by cutting & pasting our contributions to this discussion & randomising
:)
minh

[minh mcCloy]

there is a word limit of course & only some of all the pasted words got used.
here's one with some more of our words

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/56088/wordle_chat2

[minh mcCloy]

And now try this one - cartoonize everything
:)

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:19 PM, minh mcCloy <miz...@gmail.com> wrote:

[rgrozdanic]

hmmm - tried telepathy - didn't work - must be the phone towers nearby. i'll need the link.

:-)

[Julie]

This is GREAT! Have just added several Wordles to a new teaching
resource as a summary and conversation starter. Thanks all.

julie

On Jul 8, 1:46 pm, "minh mcCloy" <mizm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And now try this one - cartoonize everything
> :)
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:19 PM, minh mcCloy <mizm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i've been playing with wordle & made individualised clouds that i was able
> > to present to some folks who had worked intensely to organise a celebration
> > of refugees. The wordle cloud reflected each person efforts & priorities
> > while encapsulating the group context & teamwork -itz a very cool tool
>
> > :)
> > minh
>

> > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Derek Chirnside <derek.chirns...@gmail.com>

> > wrote:
>
> >> I was thinking about the facilitator/modertator/teacher thing, and
> >> starting off classes or events online with newbies, crerating a sense of
> >> identity and online presence . . . .
>
> >> Found this:
>
> >>http://wordle.net/
>
> >> The official blurb: Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text
> >> that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear
> >> more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different
> >> fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are
> >> yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the
> >> Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
>
> >> Actually more than a toy.
>
> >> --

> >> From Derek Chirnside.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[minh mcCloy]

if wordle has arrived can telepathy be far behind :)
sorry rose &all
http://www.befunky.com/

[rgrozdanic]

O.M.G - what a fabulous tool - what do you suppose the copyright situation would be with images you create from other people's photos? does anyone know?

easy to use too - excellent usability design. am so impressed! (i'd send you the image i just made but it might "annoy" a pilgrim and as of last week that's against the law in the medieval village where i live... :-))

seriously - anyone wanting to jazz up their learning resources with images (and my reading is that if you change an image sufficiently, you're actually creating a new one that is copyright free?) should have a look at befunky

thanks minh!

r

[minh mcCloy]

minh beams with the pleasure that can only come from being useful

:)

[minh mcCloy]

good to see you observing the 11.27th commandment rose:

thou shalt not annoy pilgrims

carved into ragged polystyrene & bought down from a highrise by the prophet Iemma of the brown nose

oops is he a pilgrim?

:)

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:58 AM, rgrozdanic <rgroz...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Barbara Dieu]

Minh...do not know about pilgrims..but your wordle composition is a
dance... almost like a tango...:-)
B.

--
Barbara Dieu
http://dekita.org
http://beewebhead.net

[rgrozdanic]

yes - didn't even occur to me to annoy a pilgrim until i heard of the law.  strange attractors, eh wot?

:-)