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
Comments posted

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!

Word Cloud

What would a picture of all the words in this blog look like? Which words occur most frequently? What does the resulting image tell us about the words we use? Wordle allows you to create just such an image. You can either paste in a whole load of text or enter the URL of a website (like this blog) to create a word cloud. Words appear larger according to the frequency of their use. It is very pleasing to see that the two most frequently used words on this site are "students" and "creativity".