Thing 20: Tagxedo

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.

I’ve used this in a classroom where students had to write 20 words about themselves all positive and then 20 more about a friend which was then turned into art. It was a wonderful way to build self esteem and affirm others of their wonderful self. This covered three curriculum areas, Language, Health and IT Technology.

I tried to make one myself but I had trouble loading it to my computer. The picture was from Google images and it was link to ‘Engagement and the authentic Integration of ICT in Literacy and Numeracy’.