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"Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. " Really simple, easy to use. Create from a URL or type/paste in text. Can be a useful way for students to think about important new vocabulary they are learning, the meaning of a book or essay they have read, etc.

An interesting way to find overuse of particular words.

Let's you create word clouds with specific shapes. Still fairly limited, but more shapes will probably be coming soon. See the Gallery. Compare to Wordle, which has a great deal of font and color variety. Word clouds might be used as a response to reading or a collection of vocabulary about a subject, or to create a logo for a project, etc.

These each render a different type of word cloud. Students can use them for project logos, or you can drop in text and see what the word frequency is. Tagul is one of the most interesting, as you can use a library of templates of different shapes.

Nice description of how to use this tool for education.

Not only talkes about this little tool, but mentions how useful Twitter is too.