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.
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.
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.
Thanks to a nifty web tool called Wordle, you can create your own word clouds and tap into the educational benefits this verbal-ranking, categorization tool offers.
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.
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.
WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text.