Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Wordle--Self Reliance

Wordle: Self Reliance  "Self Reliance" Wordle

Wordle: Nature--Emerson   "Nature" Wordle

A "wordle" is a program that creates an image based on text that you feed into it.  It creates a word cloud where the words that are used most frequently (after filtering out commonly used words) are made larger and more prominent.

If this is all we saw from "Self-Reliance," what would we conclude about Emerson and his message? 

Here's a link to create your own wordles

Wordle: Thoreau-Walden  Thoreau "Walden"

Wordle: Moby-Dick    Moby-Dick Melville

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Blogger vs. Groupfusion

Men, if you wish, please post your thoughts to the following document.  Do you prefer blogger.com over groupfusion?  Why?

Here's your link to the google doc