1. Wordle & Tagxedo Presented By: Brian Gannon & Connie Jaeger

2. Word Clouds

3. Wordle & Tagxedo This presentation will explore Wordle.net and Tagxedo.com 1) Creating word clouds 2) Different importing options 3) Changing the look of the cloud 4) Exporting, saving and printing clouds

4. Creating a Cloud in Wordle

6. PRESS GO

7. Click “Randomize” until you have a look you enjoy Or, we can make our own changes...

10. Tagxedo Very similar to Wordle Big difference: create different shapes

11. Getting started Two ways to create

12. Creating & Changing To add text

13. Creating & Changing To Save, Print, Share

14. Creating & Changing To change the way it looks } Respin - randomly change Lock - don’t allow changes Menu - manually change options

15. Creating & Changing To use a shape instead of a “cloud”

16. Creating & Changing Advanced options, not used often

17. Advanced Options Vocabulary Frequency Modifier - allows you to increase the number of times a word is used without retyping the word Normalize Frequency - Will make a list of unrepeated words look like a normal word cloud Spread - how different do you want the biggest and smallest words to be? (preset at 40)

18. Code tricks MDMC :50 - will automatically increase the frequency of “MDMC” to 50 San ~ Diego - will keep the words San and Diesgo together when forming the cloud. Word :#ff0000 - you can make any single word any color you want. (Requires knowledge of color hex codes)

19. Printing/Saving/Sharing Much easier than Wordle, although some options are complicated.

20. Examples