Web 2.0 tools are my latest addiction. That's right, I said addiction. There are so many wonderful and helpful tools available, that I hardly know where to start. There are the functional and organizing tools, the tracking tools, etc.
Then there are the fun and artsy tools. I decided to play around with the Wordle application after talking about it in our online classroom session in my Emergent Technologies in a Collaborative Culture course with Full Sail University.
I am currently in this course as part of my graduate curriculum and I really love the exploration of new tools portion of this course! My life is so busy that without this course and the assignment requirements, I might never have taken the time to play around with the Web 2.0 tools that don't involve professional networking.
Working in Wordle was super easy. I opened the application and hit "create" to make my first ever Wordle design. The big open text box prompted me to add some text. I remembered that my instructor told us during the online session that Wordle made the size of the words by how many times they were repeated in the placed text. That gave me an epiphany to see how my resume would look in a graphic representation. Excited to see what would turn out, I copy and pasted everything on my resume excluding only my name and contact information and plugged it into the create box.
The resume I was working with is five pages long and I wasn't sure if Wordle would accept that much text, but it did and the outcome was AWESOME! Upon seeing the initial results, I then started playing around with the color and placement options until I had what I liked and then saved it and made a screen shot of it. Check out my resume below:
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| MY RESUME |
Wordle should be a requirement next to a Resume for job soliciting. It is impressive how your Resume turned out in Wordle. Wordle can help students into organizing ideas for brainstorming when working for a project. Everybody can pitch in an idea and those that are more often mention will stand out, giving students a clear view of the areas they should tackle on their projects.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome idea! I am going RIGHT over to Wordle and putting in my resume. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're inspired to try all of these web2.0 tools. I've been a skeptic so far myself. I do have to say Wordle is an exception, mostly because I like the idea of visualizing a text-heavy piece.