Tagxedo

==Creating these word clouds are fun but quick. I know my coworker uses wordle and tagxedo in her writing class. Due to the fact she uses it heavily I am not sure if I want to use it as well, because I don't want students to be burnt out on it.==

==If I do use it, it could be fun to use with teaching parts of speech. Student's could create a cluster of words for different parts of speech. When printed students could even color them. These could be hung in a cluster in the hallway to show the different parts of speech. The more visuals the better.==

Another idea I have for using word clouds is to have students come up with words to replace "overused words (aka dead words)." These could be used like a thesaurus. Example of words to replace "walk."
stagger lumber meander saunter amble mosey hobble roam

Students could make a word cloud for many "dead" words such as: walk, said, good, bad, and nice.
To save as a PDF so I can Email: Click "print" is at the bottom of the screen in wordle. Then use the drop down box and click PDF.