I was just listening to Eric Langhorst's podcast over at Speaking of History and he instantly got me interested in it again. Teaching about American government, he ran the US constitution through Wordle and created a great starting point for a class discussion. It's fun and engaging and immediately provides a windown into the focus of the document.
So of course I reached for our Canadian equivalent and ran the Charter of Rights and Freedoms through Wordle and got the following result:
Click on the link and try putting your own historical documents into Wordle - let's see what other results we can come up with.
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2 comments:
Joel - Very cool, your Wordle is awesome. Thanks for sharing it.
Eric
Joel,
Thanks for introducing me to Wordle a couple months ago. I have used it in teaching projects in primary & elementary classes.
carol
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