wordle

I have a fascination with word clouds
Here is another tool for creating them
Wordle http://wordle.net/

Classroom idea:
1.Examine well known literature visually

2. Have students enter two newspaper articles on same subject and contrast and compare.

3. Language learners might see patterns in word use.

TagCrowd

Tagcrowd http://tagcrowd.com/ lets a reader "visualize word frequencies" from websites and uploaded papers.

Classroom ideas
1) Students can upload their work and judge the pattern revealed.

Here is the tagcloud created from Carondelet's home web page

2) Students examining bias , debate, marketing could get a visual representation of word usage
3) words as art