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)
You can write here if you want to collaborate:
View TheCrowdOracle, Through Simon, Speaks on Hackpad.
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)
You can collaborate here:
View TheCrowdOracle Through Maha Speaks on Hackpad.
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I love that you took their writing and extended it further, not just once (with you) but twice (with us).
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I have been churning over in my mind the notion of the neverending story that our online lives are. It is like the notion that there is no breath of air or drop of water that has not been recycled and reformed by Gaia. Everything ‘created’ can be renewed by our own spirit, our own genius, and then returned to the zeitgeist as oxygen for all, more lego block ideas in the commons.
Thanks for dropping by and adding our neverending story.
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And so it goes …
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I shared this article, titled “Complexity, Uncertainty, Emergence and Creativity” on my Facebook page yesterday. https://kjmcl.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/complexity-uncertainty-emergence-and-creativity/
I think it relates to the ideas you guys are sharing.
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Thanks, Daniel. I feel like I have been tossed into a deep rabbit warren this last week of school and I am just now emerging from there. Plus, we have just begun lambing…the season of bleats and leaps is upon me. If I disappear on occasion, this is where I am.