From 8am this morning until 8am tomorrow morning, I’m joining in on the 24 Hour Read-A-Thon! It’s sort of a reading challenge, only everyone participates at the same time. For 24 hours, we read books, post in our blogs about our reading, and visit other readers’ blogs. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day.
Welcome to everyone heading over here for a break from the read-a-thon! I hope that you’re enjoying yourself so far, and I’m really happy to have the opportunity to host a mini-challenge on my blog to give you a bit of a break from whatever you’re currently reading.
This mini-challenge is fairly simple: you’re going to create a Wordle based on a review or discussion post from your blog.
The winner of this mini-challenge will be receiving a book of their choice with a value of up to $15 Canadian including taxes. (Entries are open to people from any country that The Book Depository ships to.)
In case you haven’t made a Wordle before, here’s a few instructions to get you started:
Start by navigating to Wordle.net, the web service we’ll be using for this challenge.- Click on the “Create” hyperlink in big letters.
- Here’s where you get to choose: you can either input the URL for your blog (a specific post, your blog as a whole, or just your feed), or a chunk of arbitrary text. It’s up to you what you want to use for your Wordle. (For my example on the right, I’ve used an old discussion post about why teenagers should read classics.)
- Click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the page.
- One the website has loaded a clump of words for you, it’s time to be creative! You can change or customize lots of things about your graphic: colour scheme, shape, orientation, font …
Once you’re finished creating your image, embed it into a post on your blog (there is code with instructions at the bottom of the page when you finish up creating your Wordle). Then link up your blog post using the InLinkz below, and you’re done! Note: Apparently the InLinkz is being hit and miss; if it’s not visible when you’re here, just add your link in a comment and I’ll make sure to enter you!
And the winner is …
… Jami of YA Addict!
Tags: contest, read-a-thon
Hi! i couldnt use the linky :S
here is my post please take me in xD
http://letras-y-mas-letras.blogspot.com/2010/10/wordl-challenge.html
I don’t see where to link it up, but my wordle is in this post!
http://yaaddict.blogspot.com/2010/10/24-hour-read-thon-update-and-challenges_09.html
I love it! I have seen these before but never knew where they were from. Great challenge idea!
Here is mine (on the bottom of the post).
http://www.wooksy.com/?p=242
That, I think, was the best mini-challenge so far. I hadn’t experienced wordle before, and can imagine getting really sucked into playing around with it. I have a thing about collages…
Who else can say they got the words NEVER READ right there in huge letters. I thought it was great. Have fun Reading!!!
This is SUCH A COOL CHALLENGE! I had a great time with it. I’ll be linking my Wordle up when I post my update in half an hour.
I posted my wordle entry on my blog.
Great contest!
I can’t seem to get the linky thing to work so here’s my link:
http://www.chrisbookarama.com/2010/10/read-thon-wordle.html
The InLinkz gadget is not showing up for me anymore (I tried loading my post into it a moment ago, now it’s gone), so at any rate, my Wordle can be found here: http://elleth.dreamwidth.org/253679.html
Thanks for hosting this mini-challenge. It was so great to participate on my first Readathon. The inlinkz isn’t working for me so I thought I’d post. The Wordle was a great idea – and a great way to end my night of reading. I’m off to bed!
Thanks for hosting this mini-challenge – I enjoyed creating the wordle – for some reason I am having with the inklinkz – I am pasting a link to my post with the wordle here http://booksnyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/deweys-24-hour-read-thon-updates.html
Thanks again!
I don’t see an InLinkz, not sure what’s going on, this post looks weird on my Firefox, it might be something on my end… anyway, this is where mine is at – http://candysraves.com/2010/10/hour-15-of-readathon-got-my-caffeine-handy/
My Wordle is down at Hour 15 Mini-Challenge.
I’ve never seen a Wordle before. Very interesting.
I can’t seem to upload the image of my wordle, but here’s a link to my blog post with the image:
http://inlauriesmind.blogspot.com/2010/10/hour-15-wordle.html
I’ve posted my wordle on my blog. I’m not seeing an InLinkz …
I’d never heard of Wordle before– what a fun tool! Thanks for introducing me to it:)
http://beachreader48.blogspot.com/2010/10/read-thon-hour-one.html
here is my link post.
I can’t get the link it to work
Terribly sorry but InLinkz is having trouble and I’m off to bed… My wordle is here: http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/graasland-wordle-readathon-mini-challenge-hour-15/
Hmm…yes, InLinkz seems to have disappeared for me. I hope it’s ok just to leave my link here (Wordle is down at the bottom):
http://erinreads.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/readathon-update-5/
Thanks!
Hi! I’ve put up a post about the Wordle, but can’t seem to figure out how to link up. So here’s the link to my post. If I take another break soon from reading, I’ll try to get back here and link up properly if I can figure it out!
http://bookretreat.blogspot.com/2010/10/mini-challenge-wordle.html
Hi, I thought this was a cool challenge and so I posted up on my blog but when I came back here to link it I couldn’t find the link button. I was there when I first looked at the challenge.
So Im going to post here and hope its okay.
http://writesthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/10/read-thon-hr-15-challenge.html
here is my wordle posting
Here’s my Wordle: the Readathon edition!
http://crazycommamomma.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/mini-challenge-wordle/
http://lissaslongyarn.blogspot.com/2010/10/mini-challenge.html
oh, thank you! this wordle app is too much fun… have been spending WAAYYY too much time playing with it when i should be reading
http://leprechaunreads.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/hour-15-wordle-challenge/
I couldn’t get it to embed properly, so I hope just linking to it is ok.
Very cool, I had never heard of this website! Here is my post with my wordle at the bottom: http://stilettostorytime.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/deweys-24-hour-read-a-thon/
Hmm .. was looking for a Linky .. didn’t find one, BUT this is a way cool challenge! I LIKED it!! Here is a link to my post: http://jewelknits.blogspot.com/2010/10/deweys-24-hour-readathon-starts-now.html
This was fun! Here’s mine:
http://unrulyreader.blogspot.com/2010/10/read-thon-wordle.html
http://bonjourcass.com/2010/10/09/readathon-mini-challenges/
My entry is at the bottom of that post; thanks for hosting!
this was really fun!
here’s mine
http://fayeflamereviews.blogspot.com/2010/10/24-hour-read-thon.html
Can someone help me with this? I can’t seem to get the image of my wordle on my blog. I’ve tried everything! I am working in Windows 7. Thank you!
Thanks for introducing me to the Wordle. It’s fun!
I’m not Read-a-thoning today, but when I saw this in my reader I just wanted to comment on what a fun challenge this is.
What an awesome challenge! I’m not doing mini challenges this time around, but I was awfully tempted by this one.
Good luck to all the participants!
Looks like I was a little late in submitting…but it was fun anyways! Thanks!
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