Wordle Comparisons for Sotomayor
As you can see from a couple of blogs down, Wordle.net allows you to put in an article and it will spit out the most prominent words with the most used ones being the largest. So the top "wordle" is from the Washington Post (liberal) and the one below is from the Washington Times (conservative). To do what I did above is as simple as cutting and pasting and would be a very useful exercise for quickly showing the bias of the media.
As you can see from a couple of blogs down, Wordle.net allows you to put in an article and it will spit out the most prominent words with the most used ones being the largest. So the top "wordle" is from the Washington Post (liberal) and the one below is from the Washington Times (conservative). To do what I did above is as simple as cutting and pasting and would be a very useful exercise for quickly showing the bias of the media.
![](<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6eIlPKvkU2I/TlqhssnGzcI/AAAAAAAAB3c/bXB7oCUuB5I/s1600/cover_thumb_paletz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6eIlPKvkU2I/TlqhssnGzcI/AAAAAAAAB3c/bXB7oCUuB5I/s1600/cover_thumb_paletz.png" /></a></div> I have been waiting for <a href="http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/378">this e-book</a> for three months since fellow blogger Frank Franz (Pantherfan) told me about it. It is an entirely free AP book complete with pictures and loads as quickly as others out there. It is put out by Flat Knowledge. If nothing else I would tell your students about it for an additional resource. </div>)
1 comment:
I regret I didn't see that possibility in Wordle when I first looked at it. Great idea!
It almost looks as if you guys are having too much fun with the thing. Almost.
Wordle offers the graphics. Don't forget that Microsoft Word and other word processing programs will offer word counts for an entire piece. Student analyses of documents can take several forms in the raw data category.
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