Purpose:
- create word clouds on various web sites
- identify ways in which word clouds can be utilized in a school setting and in your personal life
- identify websites that allow you to create word clouds
- Create word clouds in the form of shapes, initials.
- Export word clouds - explore where you can export your word clouds.
- Add word clouds to blog.
A word cloud is an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others. Word clouds visually represent the frequency or importance of a word in a given text. As you can see in President Obama's Inauguration speech that someone created a word cloud from. Example: President Obama's Inauguration Speech Created from Wordle
Word clouds can be used for educational and fun purposes. You can place them on your blog, website, social networking site. You can also print them automatically onto items: a great idea for making custom gifts - printing on T-shirts. They are a fantastic tool to summarize large documents (reports, speeches, questionnaires, etc), as well as websites.
There are various websites available on the Internet to create word clouds. Word clouds can be created from sentences, whole documents, web addresses and on some websites even from tables.
WORD CLOUD WEBSITES WE WILL VISIT/EXPLORE
Wordle
Tagul
Tagexdo
TagCrowd
ToCloud
Textorizer
Text Tag Cloud
Image Chef
Worditout
ABCya Word Clouds
ASSIGNMENT
Create a word cloud on Wordle - about Social Media - describing what you have learned
- Make Social Media - stand out
- Type words that you have been introduced so far this semester: embed, link, post, blogger, etc.
- Take a screen shot and place it on your blog - as a post or in the sidebar
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