A Word cloud is graphical representation/an image
composed of words used in a particular text or subject,
in which the size of each word indicates its frequency
or importance. Word Clouds are an attractive
arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the
most important words are bigger than the others.
http://www.wordle.net
Wordle is a Web 2.0 tools for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds
give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak
your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle
are yours to use however you like.
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and
themes -- into a visually stunning word cloud. Words are individually
sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within
the body of text. The uniqueness of Tagxedo is that the words can be
placed into shapes.
http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm - Recommended for Grades: 2,3,4,5
ABCya.com word clouds for kids! Type or paste text into the box and press the arrow button to
view the word cloud generated. The appearance of a word cloud can be altered using the
graphical buttons above the cloud. It is also easy to save and/or print the cloud by simply
pressing a button.
*NOTE: You must enter 3 or more words for the app to function properly.
http://cloud.yippy.com/
Yippy Cloud is a tool that is ideal for those teachers who have classroom blogs or websites.
They can use it to create a cloud based on any topic or query. Just provide the topic title and
select the setting of your word cloud like border style, link style and width then click ' update
cloud ' to generate a word cloud around that topic. This word cloud can be embedded in your
blog or wiki using a generated embed code.
http://textisbeautiful.net/
http://worditout.com/