One of the links recently sent to me by my school’s principle/superintendent was for a website called Wordle. This site is a Java applet that designs, formats and reshapes text based on either entered text, a web URL or a link to a del.icio.us page. It then uses the frequency of the various words to determine the size of the word when it makes the image. it’s a really nifty tool for making points about important words and concepts in various texts, so there’s going to be some great application of this concept when it comes to education. In the meantime, it’s just plain fun to enter in your own text and other stuff!
Here’s my latest experiment:
I also posted one on Whitcombs.info that uses my blog URL for its basis (kind of neat to see).