Learning about Tagxedo

My students love using Wordle! It's one of their favorite learning tools for describing the characters from the stories we read.  They also love using it to help them categorize different aspects of stories or poetry or for organizing their brainstorming lists into a presentation piece to share with the class.  Most of them think that computer generated word clouds are easier to create than the paper variety.
A few weeks ago, I discovered Tagxedo, another word cloud generator.  Like Wordle, Tagxedo allows the user to create a visual representation of words, phrases, quotes, or figures.

The difference is, Taxgedo takes it one step further by allowing users to transform these word clouds into images. Users are given the option to use one of Tagxedo's existing images or to insert one of their own.  There user can then change the colors or the word cloud and then export, print, or share their creation.  It is definitely worth checking out!