get your class creating beautiful word clouds using tagxedo
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Get your class creating beautiful word clouds using Tagxedo
By Fiona Beal
What is a word cloud?
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text…
An example of a word cloud
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Look around the Gallery for inspiration
After looking around the Gallery for ideas click on Create
The menu bar
This is where you select all your options
Step 1: Load your words
You can write your own words or import words
here.
Click on Submit when you are done
Step 2: Choose a theme
Themes are located under respins on the toolbar. There are many themes to choose from, select a theme which matches your subject and a theme which you enjoy.
Step 3: Now, choose a colour
Although a theme designates which colours are put into your word cloud, you can swap the colours around to show a particular colour with a particular size of word.
Step 4: Select a font
Step 5: Select a shape for your words
Choose a shape under the heading respings. Shapes can add meaning to the words which you entered into the word cloud. You can select an image from the list provided or you can add your own image.
Step 6: Select an orientation for the words – any, horizontal, vertical or mix
Step 7: Save your word cloud
Select “Image 125KP JPG“ to save it on your computer. Title your image. Select "save". For later use, open up your documents and find the word cloud.
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Thank you!