Saturday, December 20, 2008

Word play

Our pastor used Wordle last week to give a cool illustration related the parable of the prodigal son. The way Wordle works is that you plug in a block of text, tell it how you want it to look, and it spits out a "word cloud" where words are bigger the more frequently they appear in your text block. The biggest words in the Prodigal Son cloud were father, son, and celebrate. Point well made, I think.

I plugged in one of my favorite quotes by an Outward Bound student. I thought my results were pretty cool too:



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