ABCya's Word Clouds allows players to type or paste words into a box and then generate a visual representation of their text. Kids can also get creative by choosing a custom font, color, and layout to turn their word clouds into a work of art!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with d…
About a year ago, I posted some information about two interesting sites - Wordle and Tagxedo. You can find that post HERE . I find the...
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This printable word cloud of the Christmas story is a lovely item to decorate our homes and a fun way to meditate on the meaning of Christmas.
I am in the midst of a biography unit in which my students use their research skills to study one notable person and write a three paragraph...
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Background Anyone who has created wordclouds for a presentation before will know that it is an iterative process. Not only do you have to remove “useless” stop words (e.g. the, at, am), you may also need to process word stemming so that words with the same stem do not appear more than once (e.g. “analysis”, “analyse”, “analyze”). What constitutes a stop word or what requires stemming depends on the specific context and what you wish to achieve with the word cloud. Admittedly, this is less of a problem if the word cloud is intended as a tool for exploratory analysis. However if you are trying to create a meaningful visual output, there tends to be a lot of manual work involved, and iterating all the different runs of word clouds in code isn’t necessarily the best approach. In other words, it’s difficult to scale word cloud production! The example below shows you how to create fast iterations of word clouds within R, not dissimilar to the workflow with Wordle. This method combines the speed/ease of “copy-and-paste iterations” and the ability in R to codify word cloud “settings” such as colour and stop words to remove. The workflow 1. Getting started For this example, you need to have four packages ???? installed: tidyverse, tidytext (for text mining), datapasta (for the easy copy-and-paste functions), and wordcloud2 for generating the word clouds (of course!). wordcloud2 generates interactive HTML wordclouds, so if you prefer outputs from the separate, older wordcloud package for any reason you can adapt the code below accordingly. I would also load a short function that I called rgb2hex() that would allow me to specify RGB values to be used for the colours of the word clouds. The start of the script would therefore look as follows: library(tidyverse) library(tidytext) library(datapasta) library(wordcloud2) # Use wordcloud if you wish
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Word clouds have recently become a staple of data visualization. They are especially popular when analyzing text. According to Google Trends, it seems that the rise in popularity started around 2009…
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I have a lot of students working on describing. I use the EET ( EET post ) in my room and is fantastic. But sometimes using the same organizer or writing a describing sentence is just not that engaging. I had heard about people using Word Clouds for various classroom activities but nothing for speech. I came across this word cloud creator, Tagxedo, on Pinterest, I LOVE PINTEREST ! I thought it would be a fun thing to try with my kids. You do need to download the software that it uses, but it only takes about 10 seconds and doesn't
Learn how to use word clouds as a teaching tool for your upper elementary students to analyze text, making learning more interactive.
Have you heard of Wordle, Tagul or Tagxedo? These sites help you create what is known as a word cloud from the content found on your blog, tweets, tags, or other sites you like. The more times a word is used in the content, the bigger the word is in the cloud. I used Wordle because…
I recently taught a lesson in which it was important for me to highlight keywords; a few of them were new to the class. I decided to ask the pupils to generate word clouds to find the words of most importance and then find the meanings. It was an effective way of doing so. Here…
Never heard of “word clouds”? According to Tagxedo, word clouds are “words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.” Why use word clouds? Simple. They are fun. They look cool. And in a world where no one reads, it’s all about the visual! Thanks to easy-to-use sites like Tagxedo and Wordle, absolutely anyone can ... Read More
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I have just about completed the first draft of the re-write of my AP chemistry materials for the new curriculum. Just for fun, I decided to do a Wordle word cloud for each of the six sets of notes for Units 1-6, that correspond to each of the College Board six, Big Ideas. Not sure what any of this means (almost certainly nothing), but it may provoke some thought later on.