Thursday, July 1, 2010

Word Clouds

Tagul
Web Site: http://tagul.com
Publisher: Tagul
Subject: Language Arts - Writing (includes Spelling), Graphics & Image Editing
Audience: elementary (4-6), middle (7-9), secondary (9-12), college, adult, teacher
Focus / Topic: words, word clouds, graphic design, tag clouds
Mode: Creative Activity
Abstract: Tagul is a tool for generating tag clouds from text or a URL. All words in a Tagul cloud are tagged and each tag is linked with a URL. Completed word clouds may be embedded in a blog or website and may serve as navigation units.
Type: Free


Tagxedo
Web Site: http://www.tagxedo.com
Publisher: Hardy Leung
Subject: Language Arts - Writing (includes Spelling), Graphics & Image Editing
Audience: elementary (4-6), middle (7-9), secondary (9-12), college, adult, teacher
Focus / Topic: words, word clouds, graphic design
Mode: Creative Activity
Abstract: Tagxedo is a tool for generating word clouds from text, giving greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Users may customize colors, fonts, text direction, cloud shape and more. Completed clouds may be saved as an image and shared with others.
Type: Free

Wordle
Web Site: http://www.wordle.net
Publisher: Jonathan Feinberg
Subject: Language Arts - Writing (includes Spelling), Graphics & Image Editing
Audience: elementary (4-6), middle (7-9), secondary (9-12), college, adult, teacher
Focus / Topic: words, word clouds, graphic design
Mode: Creative Activity
Abstract: Wordle is a tool for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. The clouds may be tweaked with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images may be printed, posted to a blog or website, or saved to the Wordle gallery for sharing.
Type: Free

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