It seems to me that a challenge for us is to bring Wordle to a wider audience, but only if we are convinced ourselves that teachers would benefit from having the knowledge.
A very nice word cloud creator in which you can choose different shapes, fonts and colors for your word clouds. Nice alternative to wordle. You can even sign in with Twitter and Facebook to make word clouds of your status updates.
"Word clouds are a great visual of the important words from a particular source. They also can be used as gifts when you use words to describe a particular person, place, or thing. These word clouds have unlimited uses for presentations, school projects or scrapbook pages."
ABCya! Word Clouds are graphical representations of words. A Word Cloud can represent any main idea or topic based on the words used. ABCya! Word Clouds are fun and exciting because they allow for creativity and imagination beyond lists or graphic organizers. Simply enter the words you want to use. Imagine the possibilities
"Simply enter some text and create your word cloud!
* Customise many settings
* Share your word cloud (or keep it secret!)
* Embed it on your own website"
"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 occurence within the body of text."
WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language.
