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Creating Word Clouds

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     What is a Word Cloud?  A Word Cloud is simply a tool for visualizing word      frequency.  

 

     Here is an article on "Top 10 Ways to Use Wordles's Word Clouds for Classroom Lessons".

 

43 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom

 

Many of us are familiar with Wordle but it does not have the option of saving the image.  We will look at two other services that do allow the saving of images in .jpg format.

 

NOW LET'S DO IT! 

Open a wordprocessor such as wordpad and type in text.  Copy some of the words several times.

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 copy and paste these ones

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just type in words directly on the website itself.

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Now go to one of these sites.

 

 

 

  AbcYa!

     This tool is designed for use with younger students.  Fonts, colours and      layout can all be customized.

 

 

 

 

Tagxedo 

 

With this tool one can also customize the fonts, colours and layouts.  You can even specify a shape to be generated.  Note that Microsoft Silverlight needs to be installed on your computer.  If you do not have it installed, there will be a message and link from Tagxedo asking you to install the software.

 

 

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