Word cloud generators

Targu Mures, 2011 May 25thIwona Moczydlowska, MSCDN Siedlce

Web 2.0 programmes applied to adult education

Word clouds generators as Web 2.0 tools

Web 2.0 key features

Definition of a word cloud generator

Web based application for creating graphical representation of any text;the most frequent words from the text are represented in bigger size.

Word cloud generators

Word cloud of a word cloud generator

Word cloud created by ABCYa

How to make a word cloud?I. Go to the word cloud site II. Open the word cloud applicationIII. Enter your text into the text box Typeor Copy and pasteor Specife the URLor Upload a fileIV. Click on Submit/Visualize

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Making a word cloud with Wordle

The text to be processed into a word cloud has been copied and pasted into the Wordle text box

Description of the ITAAT project copied from the ITAAT website

Word clouds of ITAAT project description

The same text, different results made by Wordle

Examples of wc generators

Tagxedo

Various applications, different capabilities, different results

Representation of ITAAT website www.itaat.eu (made by WorditOut)

Different results Text Words Cloud

Representation of ITAAT website www.itaat.eu (made by Tagxedo)

Text settings Ignoring words Common words/stop words/words frequently used Words containing 1/2/3 etc. letters

Removing punctuation characters

Displaying words Multi-word phrases (add ~ between two words

and they will be displayed together) Stemming (+language support) – grouping words

of the same family, for example teacher, teachers will be displayed as one word in good wc generators

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Words settings Entries placed according to count alphabetically randomly

Case to display most common lowercase uppercase

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Cloud settings

Word size (proportional to the number of times found or all words are the same size)

Colours (of background; words)

Fonts

Layout direction (horizonatally, vertically, mixed,

randomly)shapes (geometric, organic) cloud margin

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Advanced capabilities

Shaping the cloud in a form of your own uploaded image - Tagxedo

Connecting words in the cloud to web pages – Tagul Viewing words definitions in an online Visual Thesaurus -

WordSift, VocabGrabber Combining words with Google images and videos -

WordSift

Word cloud generators – extra

Ways of publishing wc Print Save to the public/private gallery Save as an image on the computer disk Paste Print Screen into a Word text or

PowerPoint presentation Embed E-mail Post to Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.

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Why should we bother to use wc? attractive beautiful fun more than lists and graphic organizers informative stimulating allow creativity, expression and imagination enhance critical thinking simple and easy to use it’s free!

Word clouds characteristic

Several ideas for using word clouds

Word clouds in adult education

Resources http://www.tagxedo.com http://www.wordle.net http://www.imagechef.com http://www.worditout.com http://tagul.com http://www.tagcrowd.com http://www.abcya.com http://www.wordsift.com http://www.vocabgrabber.com

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Resources Tim Barret (red.), 52 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the

classroom, https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5&pli=1

Terry Freedman, Word Cloud Shoot-Out, http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk/vl_blog/?page_id=1049

Hardy Leung, 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo, http://www.tagxedo.com Nik Peachey, Using Word Clouds in EFL ESL,

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com (3 Sept.2008)

Shelly Terrell, 19 Word Cloud Resources, Tips & Tools, http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/02/14/12

Simon Thomas, Language Activities with Wordle and word clouds, http://www.efl-resource.com/language-activities-with-wordle-and-word-clouds-2

Text + Image = Tagxedo: The Next Generation of Word Cloud Fun, http://www.tengrrl.com/blog/2010/06/19/text-image-tagxedo-the-next-generation-of-word-cloud-fun

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How word clouds are used in MSCDN?

Embeded in the MSCDN ITAAT blog to summarize information, to facilitate learning, to show connections, to decorate.

Mazovian In-Service Teacher Training Centre Siedlce Department

MSCDN ITAAT blog Polish website of ITAAT project available only to invited

readers. Address: http://iwonam3.blogspot.com

aims: 1) provide Polish members of ITAAT with information about the project (language – Polish); 2) promote Web 2.0 technology

content: project description, info about the partners, project materials, current information (topics, tasks, meetings), intercultural issues

Web 2.0 programmes used so far: Blogger

Google Docs, Slideshare, You Tube, Podomatic, Picasa, Survey Monkey, Jigsaw Planet, Wallwisher, Tagxedo, Tagul, ImageChef (and also other tools like Photo Story 3, Hot Potatoes)

Mazovian In-Service Teacher Training Centre Siedlce Department

MSCDN ITAAT blog

Mazovian In-Service Teacher Training Centre Siedlce Department

Mazovian In-Service Teacher Training Centre Siedlce Department

Information Technology Applied to Adult Training

iwona.moczydlowska@mscdn.edu.pl