All Apple has to do to secure the book publishers' enthusiastic cooperation is to offer them a generous cut of the revenues, like the 70 percent it currently offers app developers.
Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles
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.
"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."
Imagine a site like "Wordle" but on steroids - Tagxedo allows you to make word clouds with images. Really cool possibilities as an ice breaker to the new school year.
"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."
Does it only work on PCs...I tried to run this on my mac but can't get past the home page; when I go to create, I am asked to download Microsoft SilverLight, which I do. Then, nothing else happens.
I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'?
To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless.
How have I got this so wrong?
I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'?
To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless.
How have I got this so wrong?
Totally agree!
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.
Nice alternative to Skype, especially as Skype begins charging for multiple participant video chat. Communicate using 8-way Voice, 4-way Video, Instant messaging (Facebook, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk and iChat). Transfer files at any size. Remote PC Access. Share files, photos, documents, and stream music to anyone anywhere.
This site provides a way of putting youtube videos directly into a word document. This means you can give a worksheet with a video (or shockwave game) and not send the students out to other windows. The content plays directly within the word document (not for Mac though) where you can gather responses or write directly about the contents. Since the video is embedded the document file size is small, however, constant internet connections is obviously required.
Here's what looks to be a viable alternative for those who would like to make HTML5 (iPod, iPad, iPhone) friendly content. A good designer/web guru friend of mine enlightened me about this app earlier today.