Wordle

(source: http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1004) The picture above is a word cloud of this article created with [|Wordle], which is a deceptively simple web application that turns any given text (or RSS feed) into a word cloud. Wordle picks out the most common words and gives them prominence by increasing their size, making it very easy to ascertain the essence of any text simply by looking at the cloud. Behind this simple concept lie many possibilities for use in the classroom. http://www.wordle.net

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