Kristy: Tagul - the interactive word cloud maker

Earlier I spoke about Wordle, which generate word clouds from text to generate a customizable word cloud. The newest word cloud generator is Tagul, which allows you to create word clouds with words that function as hyperlinks.

Below you’ll find my first Tagul cloud. All of the words were pulled from somewhere inside of this blog.

Kristy: Word Cloud Maker - Wordle.net

http://www.wordle.net/ is another one of my favorite things. This is really fun to let the students use in the classroom. From writing about things you are grateful for around Thanksgiving to using it as a tool to describe yourself, a character in a novel, or almost anything you can think of, the end result is always cool.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. If you type a word in more often, it’ll make that particular word larger than the others. You can change your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colors. You are allowed to print the clouds out or save them to the Wordle gallery to share.