Heard of Wordle?

Today I stumbled across wordle...http://www.wordle.net/

It is a website that can create a visual representation of a reading, website, or a collection of words. I pasted the url of my TJMS tips blog and got the following visual result. It surprised me! Do I talk that much about BATTERIES??

Then, today I noticed after my post, that our district site also posted a entry on Wordle, http://wsfcsintouch.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-than-wordles.html

They must be following the same twitter people as me :)

This link has some ideas for using in the classroom, click on the slideshow to see the ideas:

http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/MoreThanWordles  And then here is a wordle Cheat Sheet:
http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/f/WordleHelp_jlw09b.pdf

Another, online application similar to wordle is Wordsift:

http://digitaltoolsforteachers.blogspot.com/2010/04/wordsift.html