What do our students think?

I’m going though some of the Benchmarking data at the moment and was putting some though Wordle. Chris Jobling suggested I put some of the information here. So, here it is. There are three Wordles (is that a word?) based on questions that were asked to students. There were 960…

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Wordle and "Obamalogical Studies"

Last week I drew attention to the use of Wordle. Today’s Times (‘Obamalogical Studies’, November 12, 2008) carries a Wordle image of words used by President-elect Obama in recent speeches, and the hopes for the Obama presidency sent in by readers of the Times. Here is the analysis of Obama’s…

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Wordle for Blogs

The Iraq War & Archaeology blog had a feature on Wordle. 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…

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