Wordle!

This site seems to be creating quite a 'buzz' amongst technology coaches. One can enter ANY text - could be the contents of an email, could be text copied and pasted directly from a website - something of personal interest or something content-specific. Hence, the educational application. There is one drawback, Wordle is not intended as an educational site specifically and its content is NOT monitored in anyway for appropriateness to an educational setting.
It is, however, very cool - here is a sample of a word cloud created in Wordle. The creator must have been comparing presidential candidates McCain and David Letterman ;-)
What I suggest you do for fun, if you want to check out Wordle is click on the link in this blog to your latest entry and simply copy the URL. Wordle will pull the text and 'word cloud' it for you - you can then change font styles, background colors, etc. Here's what the create screen will look like if you decide to do that: