State of the Union Address & Wordle

Richard Byrne over at the wonderful website Free Technology For Teachers (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/) made a Wordle from last night's State of the Union Address.

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text."

This image could be used to discuss the issues covered in last night's address.  It might also be cool to have students look at the Wordle, discuss what they think the president's message might have been and then watch a section of the address or read part of the speech to compare (http://www.whitehouse.gov/)

Source: Free Technology For Teachers  (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/01/state-of-union-video-text.html_