Teaching with your head in a Word Cloud

Over the summer, I head about the Wordle website and became fascinated with the classroom application of it. I shared it with teachers at some of our summer teacher institutes and they also loved it. Recently, it has come back to my attention (we were discussing tag clouds, believe it or not). Now I wanted to to share it with you. The site is amazing, think about it---you have students write an essay and then have them feed it into the site and out pops not just a very cool piece of graphic design but also a great analysis of their writing style. You can have them analyze words they choose to use (and use to often) and you get an instant bulletin board item.

Check out my creation using the text of the Untied States Constitution!