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To Gerald Carey - As an English teacher, word clouds are a great tool. Taking text from literature or even from your own students' writing and placing it in a word cloud builder allows students to find theme words because the words used the most often are bigger than the others. I've used my students' quickwrite entries about a chosen piece of text and shown them that they are all thinking through the literature the same way. It's pretty eye opening for an English class!

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

ABCya.com word clouds for kids! A word cloud is a graphical representation of word frequency. Type or paste text into the box below and press the arrow button to view the word cloud generated. The appearance of a word cloud can be altered using the graphical buttons above the cloud. It is also easy to save and/or print the cloud by simply pressing a button.

These Word clouds are easy to use for vocabulary. No account needed. Can be saved as jpegs.

Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud. A glance at a cloud is an easy way to preview a passage, or to analyze text.

Welcome to a this continuing series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds in education. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of word clouds, or brand new.

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary invites you to create a self-portrait using your words. The words that tell the world who you are. That make you, you. It's easy to do, whether you decide to link to places like Facebook for words you've already written or write something new specifically for your portrait. Either way, you'll create a unique image that can be shared and saved and will remind everyone that You Are Your Words.

Creative ways to use word clouds.

Terry Freedman discusses different tools for creating word clouds including wordle, tagxedo, and many eyes. 

Video shows an example of how to create word clouds using tagxedo, from HP Teacher Experience Exchange

Numerous word cloud sites are listed, as are ideas for using them.

List of word cloud sites. Has other great resources on the page.

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.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. The following are a few examples to show the versatility of Tagxedo, especially how tightly the words hug the shapes.

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Turning text into pictures.

Fun tool to use for banners, poems, reflections

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.

Like Wordle but embedable. Roll over a word & it pops. Click on it & it opens a search. #actfl09

I love it! As students brainstorm ideas about a concept this will be motivating and take their learning to new levels. Thank you very much for taking the time to create it. I also enjoyed reading about who you are and your family.

You can create an account and then save and search "My Clouds" - here is my example for Fenn Summer Reading: http://tagul.com/preview?id=69011@1&name=Fenn%20School%20Summer%20Reading