your self as plain text

Expressed as a word cloud

Web browser

Social media sites

Wordle with Java

Microsoft Word

OneDrive

Flickr

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… text in photo captions.

… tweets.

… blog posts, Tumblr items or comments.

… your personal Facebook updates.

… LinkedIn status updates.

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• Visually represented as freeform text.

• Marked down as keywords.

• Devolved as metadata.

• Taggable.

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Using Wordle.net to create simple textual analysis of Your Self.

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You can adopt a nom de plume in this exercise.

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This Wordle

Exercise makes you

discoverable.

1. Make Word Doc and save yourname_wordle.docx to OneDrive/Practical/Wordle.

2. Copy from Twitter and paste into Word Doc.

3. Copy from Facebook and paste into Word Doc.

4. Copy from Tumblr/blog and paste into Word Doc.

5. Copy from Instagram/Flickr text into Word Doc.

6. Copy from LinkedIn status updates into Word Doc.

7. Revise steps 2-6 if word count is less than 1500 words.

8. Save youname_wordle.docx into OneDrive/Practical/Wordle.

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9. Save yourname_wordle.docx as a text file.

10. Open yourname_wordle.txt in Word.

11. Select all content. Copy and paste content into Wordle > Create.

12. Select Wordle Layout of 50 words.

13. Replace common words with blank spaces. Retain your name.

14. Redo steps 11-13 until “your self” emerges.

15. Save completed Wordle as PNG file.

16. Upload PNG to SM Images/Wordle.

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You may need to install Java to run Wordle.

You might want to change browsers if Wordle crashes.

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Once you syndicate, you become discoverable.

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https://www.flickr.com/groups/mediawriting/

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Welcome to the Markdown World.

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