Thanks again to Clay for this cool tool. Here is what Act 2 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth looks like, using TagCrowd:
Thoughts and questions:
- Perhaps a tool like this could be used to help students organize ideas, by finding out what is most or least important?
- Can a text-based cloud like this have any use in a Mathematics classroom? (Mr. H, c’mon I know you’ve got something to add.)
- How could students use this tool for their own blogging? (This is actually Clay’s question, but it certainly deserves some thought so I post it here, too.)
Note: I did create a Stoplist (titled Shakespeare Playscript) to create the above TagCrowd, which eliminated all the characters’ abbreviated names, as well as all the entrances and exits in stage directions.
