Every now and again, I find it refreshing to focus my blog post around a visual image – sometimes it is a picture that explains better than any words I could choose about a powerful experience taking place in our school. But it sometimes is a word cloud. A “word cloud” takes any piece of written text and represents it graphically in a way which highlights frequently-used words. It is a fantastic device for visually summarizing the essence of a written text. Many of the programs that create word clouds allow you to enter a website, a blog, etc., and it will go ahead and create a word cloud visually summarizing which content mattered most over a bounded period of time.
I have used Wordle to create word clouds of this blog and analyzed the results.
I have used Tagxedo to create a word cloud of our Parent Handbook and analyzed the results.
Today, I want to use Tweet Cloud to create a word cloud of my Twitter feed.
Why?
Because I use Twitter exclusively for professional development and I am interested and seeing what it reveals about what I have been interested in since the beginning of this school year.
So…what does my Tweet Cloud (“t” is for “Twitter”) look like?
What do I notice?
“Habits” and “Kindness” are big ticket items. This reflects not just what we are doing internally about this, but what I have been reading professionally and asking my professional learning network about – the two primary things I use Twitter for.
What do you notice? Anything surprising you see? Anything surprising that you don’t see?
Next week, I am off to Camp Ramah Darom for our annual Middle School Retreat. The last few years I have been able to stay awake long enough on the Friday to edit my video and publish. I hope to do the same next week!
