Word clouds or tag clouds can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways. Isn’t that the trigger for creativity? Let’s find out with some examples.…
Wordle Works Wonders!
One of the challenges facing Patricia Murphy, a Dawson College teacher, is how to make student feedback explicit – both to herself and amongst her students. Wordle struck her as a great tool to capture the collective voice of students …
8 Word Cloud Makers for Teachers
A word cloud is an attractive way of visualising a large chunk of text in a more pleasing way. It shows the most frequent words used throughout the text. It’s a good way of seeing which words are used the …
Wordle Educational Uses
A great variety of resources on how to use word clouds in education.
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Tagxedo – Making Tag Clouds with Style
Tagxedo turns words – famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters – into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Word It Out – Creating Word Clouds With More Options
Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the …