Comments on: Narcissistic Friday post: Wordle your CV!

By: Fun with Wordle « Sounding Board

Fun with Wordle « Sounding Board — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:06:39 +0000

[…] this applies to anthropology is beyond me. But it’s a fun […]

By: Jonathan H. Harwell

Jonathan H. Harwell — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:47:15 +0000

Here’s my vita:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/379732/harwellvita

And here’s one of my forthcoming articles:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/379740/Alabama_Quakers

By: Jason Jackson

Jason Jackson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:49:48 +0000

The next issue of Museum Anthropology

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/376593/Museum_Anthropology_32_1

By: Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:00:37 +0000

Another CV:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/367575/My_CV

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:22:19 +0000

I did a post a while back on using wordle pedagogically:

http://carldyke.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/wordle-pedagogy/

Because I get so many papers that read like wordles anyway, the idea was to have students wordle drafts of their first paragraphs, exchange them, and see how much of each other’s meaning they could reconstruct. I thought it would be a good way to dramatize the difference between a coherent thought and a pile of words (or a culture and a pile of artifacts, I guess).

I did try it this semester (I actually started the term by handing out a wordle of the syllabus, so there was some foundation) and found the exercise promising. The students were more bemused than edified, but they enjoyed it in a funhouse-mirror kind of way. Any thoughts about how to improve the strategy?

By: Maggie B

Maggie B — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:18:40 +0000

yay savage minds finally discovered wordle…. it is a great toy.
here’s my ego cv: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/371003/mcv

By: Denice Szafran

Denice Szafran — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:59:07 +0000

And my dissertation proposal (still a work in progress):

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/370108/Flasmobs_as_Ritual_Dissertation_Proposal

By: Denice Szafran

Denice Szafran — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:47:35 +0000

Read this piece this morning via RSS, and had to go try it. Here’s mine:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/370055/grad_student

I took a screen capture and decided to load it (evetually) on my campus web page, since it is much more explanatory than the CV :::chuckle:::

By: Fuji Lozada

Fuji Lozada — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:12:00 +0000

Here’s the cv:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/369493/CV_wordle

I wordled my research statement earlier this year – that seemed to reveal more about my stuff than my cv!

By: Kate G.

Kate G. — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:12:01 +0000

And, BTW, note the juxtaposition of imaginary, husbands, and wealth in Lisu kinship; and bridewealth and opium in Lisu Marriage & Bridewealth.

Adam, from your wordle, I’d like your dissertation!

By: Kate G.

Kate G. — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:09:09 +0000

Here’s a three I did based on the abstract and the first chapter of my dissertation. It is fun:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51979/Lisu_Marriage_and_Bridewealth

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51937/Lisu_kinship

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51948/Lisu_dissertation_abstract

As I put in the caption for this on my blog — can you guess what my topic and conclusions were from this?

it’s very amusing. BTW, for a lovely interactive 3-D thesaurus, check out http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:19:24 +0000

Also, I love how, through coincidence of title and such, my wordle strongly pairs the words “dissertation” and “good” – if only my committee had felt the same way…

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:16:45 +0000

I did the first chapter of my dissertation at one point, but when I tried it just now it seriously froze my computer. So instead, my “CV”:http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366902/anthro_cv_wordle_1 – I like this ‘ego therapy’ business.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:42:59 +0000

very cool

a recent conference paper http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366857/Who_Ent_Dead_Badly_Wounded

By: w&w

w&w — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:05:32 +0000

i made wordles from several of my papers last week. i think these are more interesting (tho perhaps no less narcissistic) than my cv would be —
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wayneandwax/tags/wordle/