"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." - Tagxedo.com

Tagxedo is simple to use - simply click "Create" followed by "Load" and paste your text into the text box.

Tagxedo will automatically adjust the font size for each word - words appearing more frequently will appear larger than those that appear less often.

Tagxedo is highly customizable. You can adjust color, font, layout, orientation, and shape.

Students can use Tagxedo to help summarize texts and identify main points. When they input text from a primary source, the most important points will be the words that appear the largest.

Tagxedo can also be used as a form of assessment. In order to identify major ideas and themes, students can select the most important quotations from a text and manually adjust the font size of each word to indicate how important they are to the story.

Tagxedo can also create word clouds from Twitter feeds, news sources, or entire websites. These can be used as conversation starters for dynamic classroom discussions.

Tagxedo can be used to preview a class novel or text. Students can make predictions about the text based on the words included in the Tagxedo and their importance to the story.

For additional uses of Tagxedo visit Hardy Leung's "101 Ways to Use Tagxedo" http://bit.ly/101tagxedo.