Word+Clouds

=Word Clouds=


 * [|Wordle]** Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.


 * [|Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom]
 * [|Guess the Wordle]
 * [|Historic Speeches in Wordle]


 * [|Using Wordle in Education]

[|**Word Mosaic**]


 * [|WordSwift]**A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it's created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.


 * [|Tagul]** Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.


 * [|Tagxedo]** A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).


 * [|101 Ways to Use Tagxedo>]


 * [|Worditout]** A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.


 * [|VocabGrabber]** A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.


 * [|Tag Galaxy]** An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!![[image:http://www.bfps.wlwv.k12.or.us/petzelj/alternative_pedagogies_word_cloud_4.jpg width="440" height="300" align="right"]]


 * [|Tag Crowd]** A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.


 * [|Quintura]** Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.


 * [|TwitterSheep]** A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.

[|You Are Your Words]- American Heritage Dictionary invites you to create a self-portrait using your words