The document provides a step-by-step guide on how to create word clouds using Tagxedo, including loading words, choosing themes, colors, fonts, shapes, and orientations. It also suggests various creative uses for word clouds in educational settings, such as icebreakers and poetry. Additionally, it directs readers to online resources for further inspiration.

1. Get your class creating shapely
word clouds using Tagxedo
By Fiona Beal

2. What is a word cloud?
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches,
news articles, slogans and themes, even
your love letters -- into a visually stunning
word cloud, words individually sized
appropriately to highlight the frequencies of
occurrence within the body of text…

3. An example of a word cloud

4. Ask Google for Tagxedo.com
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5. Look around the Gallery for
inspiration

6. After looking around the Gallery for
ideas click on Create

7. The menu bar
This is where you select all
your options

8. Step 1: Load your words
You can write your own
words or import words
here.

9. Click on Submit when you are done

10. Step 2: Choose a theme
Themes are located
under respins on the
toolbar. There are
many themes to
choose from, select a
theme which matches
your subject and a
theme which you
enjoy.

11. Step 3: Now, choose a colour
Although a theme
designates which
colours are put into
your word cloud,
you can swap the
colours around to
show a particular
colour with a
particular size of
word.

12. Step 4: Select a font

13. Step 5: Select a shape for your
words
Choose a shape
under the heading
respings. Shapes can
add meaning to the
words which you
entered into the
word cloud. You can
select an image from
the list provided or
you can add your
own image.

14. Step 6: Select an orientation for the
words – any, horizontal, vertical or mix

15. Step 7: Save your word cloud
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Select “Image 125KP
JPG“ to save it on
your computer. Title
your image. Select
"save". For later use,
open up your
documents and find
the word cloud.

16. Word cloud ideas

17. Icebreaker – All about me

18. Write poems and add poem to
Tagxedo

19. The Internet is full of ideas
http://www.slideshare.net/lisavangemert/using-word-clouds-in-the-classroom
This SchoolNet blogpost has many ideas
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2014/01/try-creating-word-clouds-inyour.html

20. Thank you!