Okay… I’ve totally changed what I’m doing for my final project. I’m still committed to Wikis, but I got excited about another project.
Basically, what I want to do is focus on tagging. I am going to use Wordle to capture the blogging that’s been done by all of us in class so we can see/analyze the most frequent words that have been used. In doing this, I am going to model how you could take all of your students’ blogs and put them into Wordle in order to analyze what they are writing about. Imagine this in a science curriculum. After a couple months of students taking notes, the Wordle created by the blog entries will serve as an excellent review of main concepts.
In order to bring in multiple blogs, I spent a long time today looking for the ‘perfect’ RSS Mixer. Whew… not easy. There’s some good ones out there, but mostly they gather just the summaries from the blogs. I wanted full posts. What I ended up doing was heading off to Yahoo! Pipes to learn a bit and build my own.
My head is buzzing with the possibilities of this very simple tool, Wordle. Running the daily RSS from Google News would be a great way to start current events discussions with students (Why are these words the biggest?). What a great way to analize your own writing (pump in your own blog and see what you’re mostly writing about).
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