23-04-2021

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Tagxedo is an online platform that enables users to easily create word clouds for free. Tagxedo features customizable fonts, themes, orientations, colors and shapes and allows users to save their word clouds as images for printing or sharing. Free, Open Source: DocuScope: A tool for computer-aided rhetorical anyalysis: rhetorical analysis, text analysis, visualization: Windows (Java) Free: GraphColl: Tool for building and exploring networks of linguistic collocations: visualization: Windows, Mac: Free: ICARUS: Search and visualization tool for dependency trees: visualization: Free.

Tagxedo

Benefits
- Free.
- No sign-in or e-mail required.
- Licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share Alike License. (In other words, you may not sell items with images created by the Tagxedo application).
- It is very easy to copy and paste text from the Internet or from student work in Word or another program into the Tagxedo application. Text may also be entered directly.
- Keeps a history of previous configurations during the creation phase, so you may go back and find an earlier rendition of your word cloud.
- Allows you to create word clouds in shapes.
- Many options for saving to your local machine and on the web.
- Many color / theme options.
- Tagxedo has a stemming protocol built into the application which recognizes derivatives of a word. For example, walk, walks, and walking would be recognized as derivatives of the word walk and would only appear in the Tagxedo as the word walk.
- Not a dedicated educational site, however, the owner has stated that all Tagxedos showcased in the gallery will be educationally friendly.
- Several ads appear on the site.
- Not as easy and intuitive as Wordle or ABCya.
- Several shape options are available. However, the ability to create custom shapes or some of the shapes featured in the gallery require a premium subscription (which is not yet available, as far as I can tell).
- Requires Silverlight (not available for older Mac computers).
- The Tagxedo site is not searchable for previously created Tagxedos.
Helpful Hints
- This short video tutorial is very helpful when beginning to use Tagxedo
Intro to Tagxedo

Multiple word phrases may be entered by using the Tilda (~) between words, but this is only available when adding text through copying and pasting or direct entry. It does not work when pulling text directly from a website.
By allowing to repeat, you can generate a more solid shape. See the embedded images to the right.
The borders of the shape may be set to a 'hard border' to emphasize the shape or the shape shadow may added for clarity of the shape.
When using the embed code provided by Tagxedo, a small image is generated (and does not include the shape outline if left on the Tagxedo). One of the cool features of the embedded image is that you may actually click on a word and a web search is done on that word so if a student did not know the meaning of a word the Wikipedia or other site would be available for help. See the embedded image to the right.
Tagxedo uses a formula to determine the emphasis of the word in the word cloud that is partly based on the number of times the word appears in the text. See the Tagxedo FAQ page for more information.
Default settings eliminate common English words such as the, a, an, prepositions, etc. are automatically disregarded by the application.
Numbers are eliminated from Tagxedo by default..
Words may be removed from a completed Tagxedo by clicking on the Word / Layout Option link and selecting the Skip tab. Simply select the words you want to eliminate from the Tagxedo and Accept the changes at the bottom. This will cause the Tagxedo to 'respin'.
If you are going to embed your image, either keep a record of the URL of the image or download the image as the Tagxedo gallery is not searchable and the embedded image does not automatically link to the URL as it does in Wordle.
When creating a Tagxedo for a class, I recommend saving the Tagxedo on the web making note of the URL and saving the image to your own computer. You may then use the image in either PowerPoint Presentations or on a Website and make the image itself a link to the image on the web where the interactive functions are available. See the example below.

OVERVIEW | TAGXEDO

Easy-to-use web site creates artistic shapes from your typed words and builds four important skills.

WHAT IS IT?

A lot of people are familiar with Wordle: you input text, it outputs a lovely “word cloud.” Never heard of Wordle? No worries, you’re about to learn something more engaging for your youngster: Tagxedo.

WHAT IT HELPS

I recommend Tagxedo for four reasons:

voice (style)
vocabulary (learning words personally important to the writer)
spelling (familiar and unfamiliar words)
keyboarding

The bonus? There’s a product at the end your child can show to others: computer-generated artwork.

NEED TO KNOW

You are just two steps from a finished product. First is the most important of Tagxedo’s many options: choose a shape.

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I let my daughter select from the 100+ icons. After choosing a tree, we started step two: think of words to describe the shape. Throughout this stage, I asked her a recurring question: “What word can tell about your tree?” We came up with:

many leaves
change colours
tall
red
yellow
orange
brown
autumn

Whereas Wordle would produce these in a cloud shape, you can see that Tagxedo outputs text as the very figure you’re describing.

The tree is colourful. #AutumnWords#Tagxedohttp://t.co/zxd3mmZjlmpic.twitter.com/q3PPBX7W6b — Isabelle (@IsabelleMNOP) October 6, 2013

Under the “Save | Share” option, you can save, link to, or print the image. A minute after finishing the text, my daughter has a piece of art she created with her own words. It’s on her wall and shared online with relatives. Quick, smart, fun – and done.

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115220241″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

NICE TO KNOW

Tagxedo presents other options for (older) users keen on finesse.

colour theme
font
orientation (text direction)
layout (words change location within the shape)

A quick tap on the arrows gives a randomized appearance. I enjoy the “Orientation” option to quick-change the look of the words. Fortunately, if you don’t like your new layout, Tagxedo includes a “History” button; you can review and recall any previous looks. You can see these features modelled in the brief Tagxedo video guide.

TEACHERS

If you have computers and dictionary access, this is an excellent centre. Students can work in small groups (i.e., share a computer) and must stay on task as you’ll be looking for their finished artwork. You can tie the use of Tagxedo to several curriculum outcomes. (I’m choosing Grade 1 for this example and shortening the wording of expectations.)

SKILL	New Brunswick (descriptive text)	Ontario	Ontario ESL (G1-3)	Common Core
voice	show knowledge/interest in subject	writing 2.2 • use pictures & words to convey attitude/feeling	writing stage 1 • express ideas through drawing, first language	writing 1.W.5 • add details to strengthen writing
vocabulary	use basic vocabulary; attempt to use descriptive language	oral 2.4 • choose appropriate words from vocabulary	writing stage 1 • write some personally relevant words	language 1.L.6 • use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to
spelling	spell high-frequency words; attempt to spell unknown words	writing 3.1 & 3.2 • spell high-frequency & unfamiliar words	writing stage 1 • dictate to a scribe	language 1.L.2 • spell known words & use phonics to spell unknown words
keyboarding	n/a	media literacy 3.4 • produce short media text	writing stage 1 • begin to use computers	writing 1.W.6 • use digital tools to produce and publish writing

LINKS

Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Tagxedo instructional video: http://www.vimeo.com/mrpetercullen/thisistagxedo

Wordle: http://www.wordle.net