Followup-Questions on "Texas as Future" - Wordle

Followup Questions

In response to the excellent questions posted by some students, we discussed two further questions from the Time article on Texas:

"What does he mean by Texas has acquired a 'cool factor'?"

What is a "Sun Belt"?

Here are some of the hits we got while searching.

Cool Factor

We then discussed in what ways Texas might have "the cool factor."

The Sun Belt

We discussed why this region is called "the Sun Belt" and what the students notice about the Sun Belt..

Wordle

We copied and pasted the entire Time magazine article into Wordle, learned how to do Print Screen and use the Snipping Tool (and Mac equivalents), uploaded it into a blog post, and did a written analysis of what we learned about Texas and the article from the Wordle.

Here are the instructions for doing the Wordle. The document also contains email addresses students used to give Dr. Carpenter and CCS teachers access to their blogs.

Assignment due tomorrow: Finish your Wordle analysis post.

• Be sure to show what we can learn about Texas and the article from the results of the Wordle.
• If you'd like to narrow the Wordle down to the 10 or 20 most used words, that could be interesting. Click Layout---Maximum words... to do this.
• Point out specific facts or concepts from the article that the Wordle illustrates.
• For example: As we noted in class, California is often mentioned in the article because millions of people have emigrated from The Golden State to The Lone Star State.