1. By: Ellen Cordeiro

2. Objectives
• Tools
• Define
• Educational Uses
• Create

4. What’s a
Word Cloud?

5. A tag cloud (word cloud, or weighted list in visual
design) is a visual representation for
text data, typically used to depict key words on
websites, or to visualize free form text. 'Tags' are
usually single words, normally listed alphabetically, and
the importance of each tag is shown with font size or
color. This format is useful for quickly perceiving the
most prominent 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.
According to Wikipedia

6. Examples

7. Wordle constructed from Wikipedia's top 1000 vital
articles sorted by number of views by RichardF
By RichardF (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

8. By Nevit Dilmen (talk) and wordle.net (wordle.net and Nevit Dilmen (talk)) [CC-BY-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

9. By Hardy Leung and tagxedo.com [CC-BY-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]

10. Some
Educational
Uses

11. What sum of two dice occur the most often?

12. What sum of two dice occur the most often?

13. About Me

14. Take a current event article and paste it into a
wordle and ask the class to find the main idea.

15. Class Warm Up
What document do you
think this taxedo
represents?
Can you describe the
main idea of this
document?

16. Can you think of any additional ways
you might use
word clouds in the classroom?

17. Create

18. Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/

21. See your Word Cloud Appear

24. Notice wordle doesn’t notice the difference
between “word” and “words”

25. Use the toolbar above your Wordle for customization

26. Share
Note: You can also print to a PDF
from a PC

27. Or

31. Use the tilde (~) to connect words
For Example:
Native Hawaiians will display Native~Hawaiians will display
as two separate words together

32. Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/

38. Share

40. To embed or to create a link to,
Fill out the text fields indicated below and click submit.
Copy and paste this code to embed.

41. You may also choose to print your Tagxedo

42. Or save it as a thumbnail...

43. Remember...
Both Wordle and Tagxedo have more advanced functions
you can discover as you work with each tool. This
presentation is just meant to get you started.