Tagxedo is pretty much like Wordle...except a little cooler and a little more convenient for education. If you're a Wordle/word cloud fan, you definitely want to keep reading!
Basically, you use words to create a "word cloud" (clusters of important words). But with Tagxedo, you can specify a particular shape that you'd like those words to form...that's one of the cool parts! There's a lot more customization than there is with Wordle -- you can play around with more fonts, colors, and, of course, shapes.
One of the huge pluses is that you can save these images as files to your computer (without having to take a screen shot) so it's a lot easier to make this into an assignment without wasting the computer lab's ink! Students can save the image to the computer and then attach it to an e-mail and send it to the teacher. Just looking at the gallery page today, I've seen Abe Lincoln, the Mona Lisa, Anne Hathaway, a globe, the UT logo.... there are a ton of options, which is always nice!
I may be turning to Tagxedo instead of Wordle now, for all my word cloud creations. Refer to my blog about Wordle to get some of my ideas on how to use Tagxedo in the classroom. Since they work in the exact same way, the ideas will work for both. :)
This link will give you some more interesting ways to use Tagxedo.
Although I'm most familiar and comfortable with Wordle and Tagxedo, here's a list that contains 8 other word cloud generators...you know, in case you like to have some options. ;)
Here's a Tagxedo I made for my English class:
See? Neat stuff!
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