Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com

All about a variety of Wordle style online resources:

Wordle – (http://www.wordle.net) The king of word cloud generators
Tagxedo - (http://www.tagxedo.com/) The website proclaims, “Tag Clouds with Style
ABC Ya - (http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm) This application may be the most Wordle like.t does not require email or log in.
Tagul - (http://tagul.com/) – Tagul has some features that Wordle doesn’t, like custom shapes selection and multiple fonts usage in one cloud
Word It Out (http://worditout.com/) – Much like Wordle, it creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the text box
Tag Crowd (http://tagcrowd.com/) – While it does not give the color,unique style, or layout variation of of Wordle, it does allow one to see frequency of words.
Wordsift - (http://www.wordsift.com/) Watch this video lesson on using Wordsift with students on a lesson about Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. What a great way to analyze a speech! It even covers assessment of students using Wordsift. No login or email required. Any printing or saving would need to rely on a screen print.
Make Word Mosiac – (http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/) –
VocabGrabber – (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/) – Another creative tool that allows students to analyze a group of words
TagCloudGenerator – (http://www.tag-cloud.de/) – This is a service that does not allow pasting in of text, but instead goes to a website that is entered by the user.
TagCloud - (http://www.tagcloud.com) – A word cloud generator