Wednesday Word Cloud

I'm sharing a word cloud that I created with Tagxedo. All I had to do was paste the URL to this blog into Tagxedo and adjust your settings and a word cloud appears. Unfortunately, a few of the more popular word cloud creating softwares do not work well with the iPad.


It would be fun for students to create a word cloud on a regular computer and then send a picture to the iPad. Students can create a document in Pages, put the picture in the document, pair up with a partner and discuss the word cloud, writing all the ideas in the Pages document. This would be a good activity for middle school students. Here are a few ideas for word clouds...

1. Fun way to introduce yourself
2. Use a biography of a famous person...analyze findings
3. Analyze survey data from parents of your students
4. Create a cloud from a passage in your reading and see if students can guess the main idea and learn about the vocabulary.
5. Use the lyrics of a song
6. Speeches...the presidential speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, compare and contrast