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"People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we've made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul. You'll find a new view called "Word cloud" on your Free Text Polls."

This is a cool website. You put in some words and it creates word art.

Beautiful Word Clouds

I used this with my students to identify character traits. They had to come up with a list of traits for a main character and identify the one essential word. The character's name and the essential word were largest in the word cloud. I also had them go back to their list and eliminate the weakest word. In a writing assignemnt later, they had to defend their reasoning in selecting the essential and weakest word. Turned out to be a great assignment and my 5th graders LOVED Wordle!

If you do a quick search for word cloud, you'll see so many different types. I recommend picking test text & pasting it in each text box to see the result.

A word cloud creator with an impressive range of customisation. Just enter the text file or url to input the text and then tweak.

The use of word clouds in the classroom is quickly gaining pace because of the number of different ways in which they can be used to promote student learning.

Transform your text into word clouds! Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Make and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut!

An alternative to Wordle which seems to be down at the moment

blog entry listing cloud creating sites like wordle with explanations of how to use them. Easy to understand.

These digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and play with language. They are grouped them into four categories: Reference Tools, Word Clouds, Games and Review, Word Walls and Virtual Field Trips.

Answer Garden is a simple but elegant way to conduct a poll/survey online. Just enter your question, share the link, and respondents either enter their answer or click on a response. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. Or you can embed it on your website or blog to use it as a poll or guestbook. Post a question and others type in the answer, 20 character answer limit You create an AnswerGarden by entering a topic on the Create New AnswerGarden-page. Then you'll be redirected to your newly created AnswerGarden. Since no-one has posted an answer yet, your AnswerGarden will still be empty. The next step is to share your AnswerGarden. Use it live in the classroom, at a meeting or a conference. Or place (embed) your AnswerGarden on your blog, site or social network page, using the provided embed code. Or post a direct link to your AnswerGarden on fora or email it to friends. As your AnswerGarden draws attention people will start posting their answers to your question, either by entering their own answers or by clicking on and submitting existing answers. These are then represented in your AnswerGarden in the form of a growing word cloud.

Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency.

Make a Text Snowflake with this easy to use online creator. Enter three lines of text, adjust colours and print to make a display or part of a Christmas card. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

InstaGrok is an intelligent visual search engine and interactive learning tool that collects educational content and displays it in the form of a cloud of related words. The tool is very appealing because it offers a variety of multimedia features to meet the unique learning needs of students.