WORD CLOUDS
A word cloud (or tag cloud) is a visual representation of text information.
These are often used to show key words or tags from articles, websites or text inserted by the user.
The words are usually single words, and some sites such as Wordle show the importance or frequency of each word with font size. This format is useful for quickly showing the most prominent words terms and for locating a term alphabetically to determine its relative prominence. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are hyperlinked to items associated with the tag.
These are often used to show key words or tags from articles, websites or text inserted by the user.
The words are usually single words, and some sites such as Wordle show the importance or frequency of each word with font size. This format is useful for quickly showing the most prominent words terms and for locating a term alphabetically to determine its relative prominence. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are hyperlinked to items associated with the tag.
Wordle
Wordle is a simple toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can change a basic range of the design elements such as the direction of the words, the colour, font and style.
Wordle (and Tagxedo below) can be used for:
Wordle is a simple toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can change a basic range of the design elements such as the direction of the words, the colour, font and style.
Wordle (and Tagxedo below) can be used for:
- developing reading skills
- show the keywords in a narrative, fairy tale,
- Art work, Headings, illustrations and special occasions.
- Pastoral care: arrange the names of students in your class to use as a poster, book cover, page in their digital portfolio or to accompany a class photo
- compare /contrast keywords: comparing two simple fables or animal information reports for younger children, right up to comparing the presentation of news articles (differing newspapers/tv stations), political speeches on specific issues, the portrayal of historical events from different viewpoints, male and female roles in fairytales and so on.
- lots more!
Tagxedo
Like Wordle, Tagxedo makes beautiful word clouds. But there are some key features that make Tagxedo popular
Tagxedo does all that Wordle can do but a LOAD more!. It also has the default option where you only need to put in the words once to create amazing word clouds. The words are randomly made bigger/smaller. This is a great option for younger students. Of course if you need your word cloud to show the correct frequency or prominence of words in a given text, you can use a classic word cloud option.
You can select shape outlines and upload your own pictures to create the outline shape. The picture of the horse above was made using Tagxedo. This is a great app to make amazing Christmas cards using the words of a carol, or the vocabulary from a class lesson where students might brainstorm what Christmas (Easter, mothers, fathers, love, pets...) means to them.
There is also a greater range of colour and font options.
Like Wordle, Tagxedo makes beautiful word clouds. But there are some key features that make Tagxedo popular
Tagxedo does all that Wordle can do but a LOAD more!. It also has the default option where you only need to put in the words once to create amazing word clouds. The words are randomly made bigger/smaller. This is a great option for younger students. Of course if you need your word cloud to show the correct frequency or prominence of words in a given text, you can use a classic word cloud option.
You can select shape outlines and upload your own pictures to create the outline shape. The picture of the horse above was made using Tagxedo. This is a great app to make amazing Christmas cards using the words of a carol, or the vocabulary from a class lesson where students might brainstorm what Christmas (Easter, mothers, fathers, love, pets...) means to them.
There is also a greater range of colour and font options.
