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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Tagul - A Word Cloud with Links and Flair

Word Clouds are fun and attractive. They can also be a great tool for innovative teaching and learning. This is a new Word Cloud Web 2.0 application, Tagul,  that allows you to make different shapes and link automatically to a website.
 Ways to use Tagul:

  • Find an online story with vocabulary words for the students.  Create the Tagul and link them to the story.  The Tagul word cloud could be printed and placed in the classroom and on your blog! 
  • Link the list of and vocabulary words to an on line dictionary.  The beauty of this, is you can update the words on the Tagul and it will automatically update the blog or site with the new words by selecting the option to update the Tagul!  You could build on the list each week and at the end of the marking period have a Tagul with ALL the words for the entire marking period. 

I created this Tagul from the Even More options for Google.

Currently Tagul is in Beta and free, but later according to the site information there may be a fee.  Try it now to determine the value for your classes or business.

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