Just for fun, I've been taking some of my digital documents and putting them through wordle.net. The Wordle above is for this blog before today... sort of looks like a footprint. Hmmm... It is fun to see the themes that come through the most-used words in a document. Below is the Wordle for my latest article, Balancing the Two Faces of ePortfolios:
An interesting way to learn from a word cloud! Almost better than an abstract!
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The author describes experimenting with Wordle by running digital documents through the tool. They note that the resulting word cloud (for their blog and a recent article on ePortfolios) visually highlights frequently used themes and can even resemble shapes, like a “footprint,” making it a fun way to see dominant ideas in a text.
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