You are probably all very familiar with the popular word cloud called Wordle. However there are others that you might like to use with your students. Last year in Year 7 History we introduced students to Tagxedo which they used to create a visual image of their prior knowledge of the Nile River.
Students enjoyed turning their words into visual images, customising the font, colour, theme and shape.
Below are some other word cloud tools that you might like to investigate. It's worth putting the same text into all of the text boxes and see what tools are most appealing to you.
Word it Out creates word clouds from text,like Wordle. It also allows you to choose font,colour themes and also size.
Word Sift from Stanford University allows you to study a word cloud. Like wordle it allows you to enter text and then turns it into a word cloud. However it doesn't allow you to customise but allows you to study the text. By clicking on a word,Word Sift lets you view the meaning in an online dictionary.It would be good for ananysing speeches.
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