Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Tagxedo Tutorial



This is a tutorial about Tagxedo. Tagxedo is a fun website like Wordle, that allows you to create word clouds. A word cloud is like a cloud of words that only include the words that you choose to type, but using Tagxedo you can change the the theme of the word cloud, the shape of the word cloud, and more. For example a shape of a word cloud could be: a horse, a dinosaur, or even a dog, and more. Tagxedo can be used for many different occasions. Such as a first day of school assignment, or after reading a book or watching a movie by selecting words that describe the movie or the book the best, and a project.
When creating a word cloud you can also change the theme, and the shape of the word cloud as I said in the first paragraph, but you can also change the font, orientation, and layout of the word cloud. In more depth, to change these five options about a word cloud you just simply have to click the respin button next to the choice of what you would like to change. Also by clicking the resipn button to the right of the word "all" it changes everything including: the theme, shape, font, orientation, and layout of the word cloud all at once. One unique feature about Tagxedo is how you can change the shape of the word cloud into a snowflake, a tree, a pumpkin, and even a reindeer. Also when you hover over one of the words in a word cloud it enlarges it to be able to read it better. Overall Tagxedo is a great website to use for a project, or even a class activity.

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