Many teachers understand the power of an image as well as words can paint a powerful picture. Word clouds are excellent tools to help paint those pictures, so students can examine a deeper understanding. A lot of teachers use various tools like http://www.wordle.net/ or http://www.worditout.com/, but I came across a new tool (new to me) called Tagxedo. It's tag line speaks volumes to me: "Word Clouds with Style". There are many uses of word clouds in education. A word cloud takes a speech, writings, exerpts and creates a image of the words. The more the word is used the larger it will be in the word cloud. Here is an examples:
Check it out and give it a try! http://www.tagxedo.com/
