Here’s a fun site to create instant tag clouds based on 3 different sets of criteria:
- text you type in
- url of a site with a feed
- del.icio.us user name
Here is one I created with this blog’s url:
I see a few possibilities for this:
- Seeing frequently used words in websites or various texts, written by or for students
- Vocabulary words – a teacher could create a visual data mine for frequently misspelled or correctly spelled words to post in class
- For fun because there is nothing wrong with doing things for fun :)
I would like to see it embeddable…for now it seems to only be able to pop a tiny image into my blog (as you can (barely) see above.
I discovered Wordle via TechnoSeeds. Thanks :)