MonkeyLearn

 

MonkeyLearn is an excellent site for creating a word cloud that reminds me a lot of Wordle.  All a user has to do is copy/paste in some text and hit generate word cloud.  That's it, MonkeyLearn generates the cloud and even analyzes the text for keywords and sentiment analysis.

I highly recommend checking out MonkeyLearn by clicking here!!

For a more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's wonderful blog.

MonkeyLearn

MonkeyLearn is an excellent site for creating a word cloud that reminds me a lot of Wordle.  All a user has to do is copy/paste in some text and hit generate word cloud.  That's it, MonkeyLearn generates the cloud and even analyzes the text for keywords and sentiment analysis.

I highly recommend checking out MonkeyLearn by clicking here!!

For a more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's wonderful blog.

AnswerGarden

AnswerGarden the widely popular web tool that classrooms and educators are using to ask a question and generate responses into a word cloud is now available for the iPad.  This wonderful app is great for brainstorming, creating word clouds, and to differentiate instruction to gauge student learning.  Also, it's great for group work and to assess students.

I highly recommend checking out AnswerGarden by clicking here!!!

WordWanderer

WordWanderer is a site I just found about from Larry Ferlazzo's great blog for making word clouds.  This is a neat way to create a word cloud where you can edit what types of words you want to see or hide, such as: nouns, verbs, prepositions, etc etc.  Also, a user can click on a word to see a definition or how it is used in context or drag-a-line between to words to see how they are related.

I highly recommend checking out WordWanderer by clicking here!!!

Answer Garden

Answer Garden is an excellent new tool for a person's website. AG is a gadget that can be embedded into a site (similar to a poll) that people can use to answer question that you create. These answers then get displayed in a visual brainstorming/tag cloud view w/ the top choices standing out as more bold and bigger font (think Wordle).

Answer Garden can be used by teachers to get feedback from students, bloggers for self analysis, etc etc.

I highly recommend checking out Answer Garden by clicking here!!



Thanks to the wonderful blog Zarco English for the tip!!!

Word Clouds by ABCYa

Word Clouds by ABCYa is an excellent free iPad app that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers.  This is a great app similar to Wordle or Tag Cloud for creating those ever popular word clouds.  Word clouds are often used to visual represent a word frequency and can be used by any subject or curriculum.  This app is very easy to use and allows a user to edit their clouds by font color, size, etc.

I highly recommend checking out Word Clouds by ABCYa by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Word/Tag Clouds click here.

Cloudart

Cloudart is a great iPad app for creating word clouds that I just found out about from Edshelf.  This is a very easy to use app where a user can either add the text they want in their clouds or transform text from a webpage into a cloud.  Also, a user can edit their cloud once it is created to emphasize on certain words.

I highly recommend checking out Cloudart by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational iOS Apps click here.
For my Edshelf collection on Educational iOS Apps click here.

Word Cloud Generator

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's blog, I found out about a new animated Word Cloud generator.  What I like about it, is that the site supplies you w/ the embed code (it is a bit robust) which allows users to customize it and use the generator anyway they see fit.

Give Jason Davies Word Cloud generator a try by clicking here.

For my top 10 word cloud generators click here.

Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds

"A text cloud or word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list (wikipedia)." This is a concept that is utilized a lot in education for: visualization, brain storming, and mind mapping." While this can be done using paid applications such as Inspiration, there are a number of free sites that accomplish the same.

Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds

1. Wordle - Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.
2. Tagxedo - A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).
3. Tagul - Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.
4. Worditout - A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.
5. Word Sift - A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it's created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.
6. VocabGrabber - A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.
   
7. Tag Galaxy - An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!!
8. Tag Crowd - A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.
9. Quintura - Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.
10. TwitterSheep - A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.

Twitter Sheep

Twitter Sheep is a fun site for Twitter users. The way this works is a user enters their user name in the Twitter Sheep text box and then watch as a word cloud gets generated from the bios of their followers. By looking at a person's "flock" one can get a general idea of what a person is all about.

Below is an example from my user name...



I highly recommend checking out Twitter Sheep by clicking here!!!

Tagexdo

Tagxedo is a new (beta) site for creating excellent looking word clouds. It reminds me very much of Tagul in where you can custom make your word clouds into anything you like. A really nice feature which I haven't seen before is the ability to even use words as custom "word cloud" shapes.

Below are samples of what you can do in Tagexdo...



Give Tagexdo a try by clicking here.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the great site!!