Tagxedo is another word cloud program. A word cloud is an image made up of words.
It is the same as other programs in that you select words to add to your creation. It is different in that you can do a shape created by the user. The site also does require you to download the program to your computer. It is currently free but may have fees in the future. It can be used at all grade levels and it can be used either as a group on the white board or by individual students on their computers. One drawback is that you can not search and find tagedos that have been previously made unless you saved it to your own computer when it was made. This is a problem with some of the other word cloud programs also.
When you are ready to create, you can select your own words or get words from web pages, blogs, speeches, ect. There are editing choices on the site to alter your word cloud. This site offers more options than Wordle but has the extra loading requirements.
