Have you ever heard of Wordle? It's a great tool to analyze text in a fun way. I asked the Wordle Website (http://www.wordle.net) to look at our blog, and it generated this picture. The bigger a word is in the picture, the more that word appeared in our blog. I was a bit curious why "Gentlemen" appears to be larger than "Ladies." I always use these words together...
You can choose all sorts of colors, fonts and layouts. I got this great idea from a high school classroom blog where they used this tool to analyze high level literature. We can use it to analyze our word choice in our writing. Have you ever wanted a cool way to see if you have used a certain word too many times? Now you cann look at your writing through Wordle. You can ask it to examine any website, or text you enter yourself.
I know that it is hard to see some of the words on the picture, but you can click on the picture to see it better.
~ Mr. Moore
