For the Twitter challenge, I started with baby steps and I used the template found on socialwordcloud.com and created a twitter cloud using all the tweets from someone I greatly admire, Dr. Jill Biden. Regardless of your political views, I find her acts and actions very inspiring, while she is attending to her First Lady duties, she still finds time in her busy schedule to teach at least at the Community College level. I liked how the twitter cloud turned out (attached below), it’s colorful and shows a variety of the messages that she has posted to the world. I think these word clouds have near limitless potential based on what or who’s social media you link to the cloud. I think an interesting experiment you could undertake is do a cloud at the beginning of a semester with students of a specific field or area, and throughout the semester perhaps have the students track the social media accounts and near the end of the semester do an updated cloud specifically with updates throughout the semester to see what has changed throughout the course. I cannot seem to get the image to attach here, but it's included on the #eme6414 twitter page, under my twitter account lehorne8 if anyone's curious!
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