Tag Clouds in the Classroom
Recently, I received a message from my colleague, Htay Hla, Director of Information Technology at University of Arizona. Htay is a member of our Epsilen Web 2.0 group. He had put one of my posted journal articles through a tag cloud generator, Tag Crowd. He sent the generated tag cloud to me in a pdf format. I thought, “AMAZING! Could this be a tool for the classroom?” I tried it. I put my resume through the Tag Crowd. Look! It’s me, professionally compressed!
Go to the site – http://www.tagcrowd.com and catch a vision. I see it used in visual arts, economics, writing, history, biology … you name it. Try it. Let me know what you think.
Nancy:
I just gave a tech inservice to a group of k-12 teachers and we came up with all sorts of ideas for tag clouds – speech, english, history, kindergarten teachers using it for nursery rhymes. Another good site (that gives you a bit more control of your graphic) is wordle.net
Andy Stanton
Fort Hays State University
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