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

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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!