Our 2009 Wordle

I've just made this Wordle based on all the posts we have made to this blog since January 2009. Incidentally, there have been 111 posts so far this year already. What does the word cloud tell us? Well, my first inclination was to try to make a found poem out of the most frequent words. This is what I came up with:

Students like new learning
Tallis people make school creative
Creative project really working
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Despite the heavy bias in this interpretation, it is fascinating to see the frequency with which words like "School", "learning", "students" and "creative" crop up. We have clearly been pretty focused in our research and on task for much of the time. Well done folks!

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I thought I might try and see what happens when you put a whole poem into Wordle. I'm studying 'The Lyrical Ballads' with a yr.13 group at the moment so I tried Wordsworth's poem, 'The Tables Turned'. It produced a fascinating Wordle that revealed Wordsworth's distinctive poetic lexicon. Students are often presented with the finished poem, but maybe a wordle of the poem could be a much more stimulating introduction. Maybe students could sort some of the words according to categories - feelings, colours, time, spaces ... maybe students could wordle poems to make revision activities ... or pick words to assemble their own lines and verses before they see the actual poem?

Mr. Hawes