I am sitting here going through my Twitter feed and came across this Tweet from the Fix. It shows the results of a NBC-Wall Street Journal poll which asks readers how the president (blue cloud) is handling the shut-down as opposed to the Republicans (red cloud). Word clouds are a great way to have students quickly compare the viewpoint of a story. One idea would be to compare articles in the Wall Street Journal (conservative) and Washington Post (liberal) and to put their word clouds side by side as I have done above.
- Wordle is the original word cloud maker which produces the clouds above.
- Tagxedo lets you compare articles, Tweets, searches, RSS feeds, etc.
- ABCya and TagCrowd lets you enter in your own work which is a good way for students to see how they repeat words such as "I."
![](<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>)
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