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		<title>TagCrowd &#8211; A Meme and an Idea</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks again to Clay for this cool tool.  Here is what Act 2 of Shakespeare&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks again to <a href="http://beyond-school.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-meme/">Clay</a> for this cool tool.  Here is what Act 2 of Shakespeare&#8217;s <a href="http://bartleby.com/70/index41.html"><em>Macbeth</em></a> looks like, using <a href="http://tagcrowd.com">TagCrowd</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/macbeth-act-2-tagcrowd/" rel="attachment wp-att-13" title="Macbeth Act 2 TagCrowd"><img src="http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/files/2008/04/picture-1.png" alt="Macbeth Act 2 TagCrowd" height="372" width="514" /></a></p>
<p>Thoughts and questions:</p>
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<li>Perhaps a tool like this could be used to help students organize ideas, by finding out what is most or least important?</li>
<li>Can a text-based cloud like this have any use in a Mathematics classroom?  (<a href="http://mrhamada.edublogs.org">Mr. H</a>, c&#8217;mon I know you&#8217;ve got something to add.)</li>
<li>How could students use this tool for their own blogging?  (This is actually Clay&#8217;s question, but it certainly deserves some thought so I post it here, too.)</li>
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<p>Note: I did create a Stoplist (titled Shakespeare Playscript) to create the above TagCrowd, which eliminated all the characters&#8217; abbreviated names, as well as all the entrances and exits in stage directions.</p>
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