Facebook Status to Wordle

I created this page in Wordle from the text of my Facebook status updates since August, 2008 - as far back as Facebook has archived the status updates.

To do this, I used a Facebook application called Facebook Status which captured the history. It has its own representation features you can use, but I wanted to put mine in to Wordle so I needed to slightly modify the text I had captured.

I pasted the text in to MSWord so that I could use a search and replace command to change the instance of the : to a tab. There are two colons in every line, used in the time and the date of the update.

After the replace was completed, I copied the text again and pasted it in to Excel which recognized the three columns separated by tabs. I deleted the time and the date columns, leaving me with just the column of text. That column I copied, went to Wordle, pasted, and voila - my status update wordle document.

I hope you enjoy this if you give it a try.

Take this science quiz

To think, at one time I wanted to be a scientist.
What facts do you remember from your days in class?
How much has your success in life been based on the memorization of facts?
Am I just compensating for getting an "average grade"

What Am I?

Canadian Mom made reference to a blog which presents the reader with a series of questions (40) designed to make a guess as to your personality type. Of course, I had to try it out.

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

Interesting results, as I generally wirte only as much as I need to - always had trouble with those 10 page assignments and was pleased when technology allowed me to vary the margins and the font size. Artist? Those who know me well would share a laugh about that. Mind you, I don't have a LOT of close friends, so I guess that was bang on.

Follow this link, What's Your Personality Type? if you want to give this quiz a try for yourself.

New take on an old joke

Playing with some Web2.0 tools

Part of the fun this week playing with tools that can be used to create HTML code for pasting into blogs led to this site. The magazine cover on the left is an example of what can be created using one of the free tools on this site. I expect kids and teachers to have a lot of fun using these tools, at the same time developing the literacy skills necessary to create publications for a variety of audiences.