Your Self as Plain Text
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A practical exercise using Wordle to provide a sense of self through simple data mining across social networks.
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Your Self as Plain Text
- 1. Expressed as a word cloud
- 2. Web browser Social media sites Wordle with Java Microsoft Word OneDrive Flickr #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 2
- 3. … text in photo captions. … tweets. … blog posts, Tumblr items or comments. … your personal Facebook updates. … LinkedIn status updates. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 3
- 4. • Visually represented as freeform text. • Marked down as keywords. • Devolved as metadata. • Taggable. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 4
- 5. Using Wordle.net to create simple textual analysis of Your Self. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 5
- 6. You can adopt a nom de plume in this exercise.
- 7. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 7 This Wordle Exercise makes you discoverable.
- 8. 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. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 8
- 9. 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. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 9
- 13. You may need to install Java to run Wordle. You might want to change browsers if Wordle crashes. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 13
- 21. Once you syndicate, you become discoverable. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 21
- 26. Welcome to the Markdown World. #LSADmedia @topgold CC-by-4.0 26
Editor's Notes
- Using Wordle to develop a visual look of online personal identity in the Limerick School of Art & Design.
- This Wordle exercise requies you to scrape text from Instagram/Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr or your blog, personal Facebook updates and LinkedIn status updates.
- When you are a tag cloud, you are represented by text. You’re often tagged in context (at events, by birthdays or associations) already. In terms of an interface or database, the relative importance of each keyword is often shown with font size or color. This format is useful for quickly perceiving the most prominent terms and for locating a term alphabetically to determine its relative prominence. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are hyperlinked to items associated with the tag.
- Introducing the practical version of Wordle.
- This Wordle exercise syndicates into a highly discoverable location.
- You can elect to use a pen name with modified attributes.
- You need to grab more content if your word count fall below 1500 words.
- Save and share your work.
- After you achieve your word count, downsample the document into a text file.
- Continue saving document as a text file. You will later open that text file in word.
- The operative menu is “create”.
- Java installation may challenge your patience.
- You have much more control with the paste option when using flat text copy and paste into Wordle.
- Returned to text file to insert blank spaces in place of like, form, February, delete, comment, form.
- Returned to text file to insert blank spaces in place of buffer, searchin, via, retweet, trackback.
- Returned to text file to insert blank spaces in place of take, Bernard, Goldbah, www.flickr.com, ago, others, Bern-ie.
- Finished Wordle is an accurate representation of Bernie Goldbach’s online social media in the month of February 2015.
- Finished Wordle screenshots should be saved into the shared Wordle folder.
- Social media students in the Limerick School of Art & Design leave artefacts inside Flickr.
- This may mean you wish to cloak yourself with a nom de plume.
- You need an invitation to join the Flickr Media Writing Group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/mediawriting/
- The Flickr Media Writing Group has a cross-section of word clouds.
- This Wordle exercise attracts attention on Irish edtech blogs.
- This Wordle exercise attracts attention on Irish edtech blogs.
- This social media practical exercise is conducted routinely during a two-hour session in the Limerick School of Art & Design by Bernard @topgold Goldbach. You can view results of past exercises in the Media Writing Group on Flickr.