By: Ellen Cordeiro

Objectives

• Tools

• Define

• Educational Uses

• Create

What’s a Word Cloud?

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

Examples

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

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

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

Some Educational

Uses

What sum of two dice occur the most often?

What sum of two dice occur the most often?

About Me

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

Class Warm Up

What document do you think this taxedo represents?

Can you describe the main idea of this document?

Can you think of any additional ways you might use

word clouds in the classroom?

Create

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

See your Word Cloud Appear

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

Use the toolbar above your Wordle for customization

Share

Note: You can also print to a PDF from a PC

Or

Use the tilde (~) to connect words

For Example:

Native Hawaiians will display as two separate words

Native~Hawaiians will display together

Tagxedo

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Share

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.

You may also choose to print your Tagxedo

Or save it as a thumbnail...

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.