Word Clouds are fun. And they amount to an I Ching of sorts if used in an open and oracular way. You have to ask the text a question and then create the word cloud and then interpret the cloud as an answer to that question.
I choose a post by Simon Ensor and one by Maha Bali to demonstrate. This is play and fun to my mind, reading closely on a slant.
Here is the question I am asking of Simon’s post: why is time not money?
The Oracle of WordCloud speaks text and image,
absent (2) acceptance (3) accident (2) barely (3) better (2) boxes (5) bring (2) busyness (2) choice (3) end (2) envelope (2) existence (2) feel (2) felt (5) fragment (2) head (2) hour (4) improvement (2) joy (2) language (3) life (3) looked (2) lot (2) love (2) metre (2) mind (2) money (10) nothing (2) open (4) paper (4) peace (2) poverty (6) quite (2) reason (2) seemed (2) something (3) speak (2) square (2) ten (3) thought (2) vialogues (3) walls (3) write (4)
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Here is the question I am posing for Maha’s post: can reform work?
beyond (2) comments (2) complex (2) continue (3) country (2) course (4) difficult (2) direction (2) discuss (2) education (16) egypt (4) end (3) equity (6) event (4) finland (5) finnish (3) focus (2) focused (2) frustrate (2) happening (2) ignored (2) improved (2) key (2) keynote (2) literacy (2) model (2) name (2) networked (2) pasi (3) people (4) pisa (2) possibly (2) problems (5) quality (7) questions (2) reading (2) reform (7) reminded (2) sahlberg (2) solve (2) storify (3) talk (5) test (3) things (2) vision (2) whole (2) work (3) yesterday (2) young (2)
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