A word cloud is mostly used to visualise data from texts. It is a representation of the most frequent words in a reading text for instance. Word clouds can be very useful for visual learners to help them to grasp the main idea of a reading text or to highlight specific vocabulary items. They can also be used to group words into categories or even create and design word games.
There are a lot of word cloud generators available online and below are three of them which offer free access to their services.
- Wordclouds.com is free to use and highly customizable. It offers ?color pallets, masking option, sizing settings, 300+ fonts, ability to invert the design, font sizing, and 140+ shapes to choose from (icons/countries/ and a lot more). You cand download your word cloud in jpeg, png or pdf formats.(watch a video tutorial)
- WordItOut is another free word cloud genrator but with limited customization options. (only portrait and landscape shapes are available)(watch a video tutorial)
- TagCrowd?generates very basic word clouds with very limited options: (no shapes, no color pallets).(watch a video tutorial)
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