By: Claudette Young,
on 8/8/2012
Yep, you guessed it. Poetic Asides took up the Wordle banner today. See my responses on Two Voices, One Song.
http://2voices1song.com/2012/08/08/poetic-asides-goes-wordle/
Enjoy and join in the fun. Try your hand at something new, or perhaps something put aside for too long.
A bientot,
Claudsy
By: Claudette Young,
on 8/7/2012
Wordle (Photo credit: Oompoo)
I decided to do something different today for a short post. I’ve been writing for submissions today and this is a little poem that I did for the site The Sunday Wordle.
For those who don’t know what a wordle is, here’s how it goes. Choose a group of related/unrelated words–from seven to ten of them–and then write a poem using those words. If you’re not a poem kind of person, write a piece of fiction/non-fiction of no more than 100 words using all of the given words.
Think of this as a writing exercise that anyone can do. It doesn’t matter really how expert it sounds or how off-the-wall. It’s your wordle–make it what you want. One thing you’ll find with that this exercise forces your mind to shift gears and look at how you put things together and how you use language for the meaning you want to transmit.
Take a chance and have a whirl with a wordle. And when you think you’re ready, share it here or jump over to The Sunday Whirl and share there. Enjoy yourself. That’s the main purpose of it all.
Home’s Destination
A link to my port of call,
a deck on which to stand,
as I navigate foreign waters,
I store up scents and sights
to anchor me within time,
to sink into my marrow,
never to wake from this dream,
even as I pitch against the rail
of stern reminders of days gone
missing and lives gone stale of use.
© Claudette J. Young 2012
By: Claudette Young,
on 8/7/2012
Wordle (Photo credit: Oompoo)
I decided to do something different today for a short post. I’ve been writing for submissions today and this is a little poem that I did for the site The Sunday Wordle.
For those who don’t know what a wordle is, here’s how it goes. Choose a group of related/unrelated words–from seven to ten of them–and then write a poem using those words. If you’re not a poem kind of person, write a piece of fiction/non-fiction of no more than 100 words using all of the given words.
Think of this as a writing exercise that anyone can do. It doesn’t matter really how expert it sounds or how off-the-wall. It’s your wordle–make it what you want. One thing you’ll find with that this exercise forces your mind to shift gears and look at how you put things together and how you use language for the meaning you want to transmit.
Take a chance and have a whirl with a wordle. And when you think you’re ready, share it here or jump over to The Sunday Whirl and share there. Enjoy yourself. That’s the main purpose of it all.
Home’s Destination
A link to my port of call,
a deck on which to stand,
as I navigate foreign waters,
I store up scents and sights
to anchor me within time,
to sink into my marrow,
never to wake from this dream,
even as I pitch against the rail
of stern reminders of days gone
missing and lives gone stale of use.
© Claudette J. Young 2012
By: Mary Lee,
on 6/29/2012
Bridget Dalton and Dana L. Grisham wrote a fantastic article in the February 2011 issue of The Reading Teacher, a journal of research-based classroom practice, published by the International Reading Association. The article, eVoc Strategies: 10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary, “highlights ten strategies that hold promise for improving vocabulary learning in intermediate grades.”
Here they are:
Lots of possibilities! This post first appeared on SSPP Reads on 02/23/2011.
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By: Karen Strong,
on 5/5/2011
I loves me some Wordle and making pretty word clouds.
When I first started blogging, I created one using words from my blog.
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I even did one for my Twitter background with words from one of my blog posts.
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So I decided to do another Wordle from my blog and see what words I tend to use the most.
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Wordle is also good to use for chapters and/or paragraphs from your novel project to view and get rid of redundant words. Like in the case with my blog, it seems that I like the word “really.” Really? Ha.
Also seems that I like others words like “Writing,” “Book,” “love,” and “Kindle” because they are highly used as well.
Go check it out and see what Wordle reveals about your blog and what you tend to talk about the most.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 1/7/2011
Here’s more from the site: “Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”
This GalleyCat contributor took eBookNewser’s “Free eBook of the Day” (Rudyard Kipling‘s The Jungle Book) and created a word cloud–the image is embedded above. Other literary projects on Wordle include the U.S. Constitution, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn.
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By: tara,
on 11/16/2008
The KidLit Comment Challenge helped me uncover some boss new blogs and websites this weekend.
Everyone is talking about Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg. Input text and Wordle creates a word cloud, your very own piece of literary art, which I’m calling “literarti.” The more frequently a word appears in the text, the larger its relative size.
I had fun pasting my picture books into Wordle. Here is The Prince of Pizza:
You can change the font, color palate, direction of the words, and maximum word count. You can even link phrases with the tilde symbol (~) so they appear together. Keep in mind that Wordle’s gallery is uncensored, so it might not be appropriate for lil’ ones.
A site you will want to share with your young readers is illustrator Aaron Zenz’s Bookie Woogie: book reviews by kids, for kids (and their parents). Aaron and his three children, Isaac (10), Gracie (8), and Lily (5), review their favorite books from their impressive 2800-book home library. And when the discussion is finished, they share artwork inspired by the story. Aaron’s artistic talent has definitely rubbed off on his brood! Join them every Monday for a new book.
And then there’s Bendaroos. If you have a child with an insatiable artistic soul, then these colorful, bendable wax sticks promise to keep them busy for hours. You can even make your favorite picture book characters come to life by using the illustrations as a template. Your Benderoo sculpture will lift right off the page when you’re done. As soon as ours arrive, I’ll post our creations.
By: Trisha, Gayle, and Jolene,
on 11/11/2008
on writing a review tonight, but ended up playing around with Wordle instead.
A couple months ago, Scott Westerfeld wordle-d the bands and singers he listens to.
I thought, “Ooh, that looks like fun,” so I did it too.* Here’s what I’ve got on my computer:
I have to say, though, this is not really representative of what I’m *listening* to these days. Unless the Pumpkins pop up on Party Shuffle or a playlist, I haven’t listened to them in years.
Although I am listening to Ryan Adams right now. (As in, as I write this.) Even though I swore last year that I wouldn’t buy any more of his albums because I was so pissed off by what he did to “Hey There Mrs. Lovely” on Easy Tiger, I ended up buying Cardinology anyway. Which, so far, I’m not liking anywhere near as much as Cold Roses. So once again, I am going to swear that I won’t buy any more of his albums. This was the last one. REALLY! (And watch me buy the next one whenever it comes out. Oy.)
* If you want to do it, here are my instructions, adapted from Scott Westerfeld’s:
By: Jenny Levine,
on 8/21/2008
banned books, school libraries, wordle“The idea of creating Tag clouds is not new or unique but the Wordle application offers those in schools with a uniquely visual way to view and/or analyse some text. It is very simple to use and the results are created quickly. The style can be changed easily, if required, and easily saved….
We used this aspect in the library this week when we made a Wordle using a number of lists of banned books. The authors, the titles and types of books were entered into the text box. Overwhelmingly the word ‘novel’ stood out. A second Wordle on banned authors had William Shakespeare and George Orwell as the standouts. This could form part of a greater discussion about the reason for this and we intend to give the issues of banned books and censorship a wider focus at a later date, perhaps as part of Social Justice Week, run at our school each year.
We are also using Wordles as the basis for one of the competitions for Book Week. We created Wordles of synopses of various well known books (taking out any references too unique to the book) and printed out copies. One of the library staff members had fun playing with the colours and formats. We did one for ‘Bryan Strauchan: my story‘ and made it black and white. (Bryan Strauchan is a fictional character who plays for a football team that happens to have team colours of black and white.) Another book involving animals was done making the Wordle resemble tiger stripes. The Wordles look great laminated and I will also be putting up digital versions on the library website.” [Rhondda’s Reflections - Wandering around the Web]
By: Catherine J Gardner,
on 7/12/2008
I'm up far too early for a Saturday thanks to arguing neighbours and the sirens of police cars (oh and yes I'd love to know what's going on - damn double glazing muffles everything). Anyhow, due to the early hour, I have ascertained I have a legal right to procrastinate by trawling the internet, visiting blogs and not getting a single word completed on 'Matchsticks' or the story I am working on for the Permuted Press anthology: 'The World is Dead'.
Via Goodscares, the blog of C. Michael Cook, I found Wordle where you can create your own word art. Here's what I've been up to: You will need to click on them to see them in all their glory.
By: Amy C. Moreno,
on 6/29/2008
Wordle says on it's site:
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "
It's fun. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to asap....
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By: Laura Purdie Salas,
on 6/24/2008
I saw a Wordle on Lisa Albert Rondinelli's blog and thought it was so cool! What's a Wordle, you ask? (Or maybe you don't ask. Maybe these are all over the blogosphere, and I'm the last person on Earth to have heard of them!) Well, it's a word cloud based on text that you paste in.
Here, for instance, is the Wordle for my 50 State Poems collection.
Isn't that nifty? You go to Wordle.net and paste in your manuscript, your favorite song, an article, whatever, and it generates the cloud. The Wordle is almost like a poem based on your text, to me. In fact, I can think of several cool poem activities based on it. For instance, what if you had to write a found poem from this Wordle, and you could only move from word to another word it touched?
I wrote this one thinking of the flooding going on in surrounding states right now, when the river that was a happy resident of a town suddenly becomes an attacker:
River storms American towns
Water flows north
Rain makes prairie waves
OK, I cheated a little on the last line because "makes" doesn't actually touch "prairie." But it's a game, right? Poetry is playing with words, and this is a fun way to do it.
It's also a cool way to capture some of the essence of your longer work in one image. Have fun!
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 1/29/2008
Author: Lisa M. Chalifoux
Illustrator: Heather Castles
Published: 2008 Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1425155472 Trafford.com Amazon.com
What could be more giggle-inducing than recognizing our own human foibles in a pair of sweet and spunky turtles? With its slapstick, smiles and airy, upbeat illustrations, this simple story helps us laugh at the silliness of squabbles and invites us to find a better way.
You can sneak a peek at the whole book on Heather Castles’ blog, here!
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Oh, Claudsy, I Love this!!! (Yesterday, as I was coming to visit your site,”Life Happened”, and I was forced to shift gears away from my laptop. As a result, by the end of the day, I was happily riding my new, colorful, Wonderful bicycle around my sweet neighborhood… a Happy Girl here). Thank you for promoting Wordling! Hugs to you! Hen
Thank you, Hen. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I hadn’t realized until I looked at the prompt that I’d done this form before and always enjoyed it. It stretches the mind. I’m always happy to promote poetry.
And lucky you to get a new bike; one to have new adventures on. Yay!
… Soo much fun … !!!