![]() Each of the following links provides a wealth of ideas for you. My two favorite word cloud generators remain Wordle (for simplicity and clean look) and Tagul for when I want a word cloud shaped like a pumpkin, or some other specific shape.īefore you just get lost in the beauty and fun of word clouds, we want to emphasize that there are some great educational reasons for using word clouds. This article lets you know whether you will need an account, for example, or what kind of file the generator outputs your completed word cloud to. There are some really great word cloud generators out there and they are described well in The 5 Best Free Word Cloud Creation Tools for Teachers. In my example, you can see that our posts must have a lot of course/faculty/student /tool/use emphasis since those are the largest words showing up. What are “word clouds?”Ī word cloud takes a document of text (could be a speech, a poem, a lesson on astronomy, song lyrics, recipes, etc.) and creates an image based upon the frequency of word usage. “But why” you might ask, “would you want to do that? And what possible academic benefits or uses could word clouds have?” Good questions, and hopefully this post will address those questions, but first, let’s start with the basics. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was created by pasting all of the words from all of our Faculty Learning Corner posts this past month into Tagul, a word cloud generator. Is it true that a picture is worth a thousand words? We think so! Check out the word cloud to the right. ![]()
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