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Tag Clouds

Stephanie Bartlett
Megan Breland
Kacy Medlin
Christian Walker

Definition:

Tag Clouds are a set of related words. Each cloud contains between 30 to 150 tags, or words. The different font sizes represent the importance of the word, as well as its quantity. Other visual cues, such as color, may be used to represent the different weights of the words. Tag Clouds are able to represent more weights than other forms of measure. Histogram or pie charts can only represent an average of 12 weights. Tags within the cloud may also be hyperlinks that will open to more information.


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Brief History:

Tag Clouds began to grow in popularity after being used on Flickr. Tag clouds were created by the co-founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield. Other websites such as Del.icio.us have also promoted them. Tag Clouds were first published in Microserfs, a novel by Douglas Coupland. This novel was written in the early 1990s about technology and its future. Tag Clouds are now used as navigation tools for many websites. Flickr uses tag clouds to show the most tags for photos from its users. Tag Clouds also benefit students as well by helping with topics for papers.


Key Features:
  • Use it to find key words/points of an article
  • Makes brainstorming easier
  • Insert a paragraph or article into the box and it automatically pulls out the key words/points in the inserted work
  • Students are able to use different fonts to add effects to the “tagged” information


Educational Value:

  • tool to make sure students are staying on track when writing.
  • great way to help students get the main ideas of articles, papers, and essays.
  • can be used to find specific key terms/ phrases in writings
  • re-posting items in wordle can help students find the information they need in difficult readings.
  • great tool for tactical learners and visual learners.
  • can assist students who have trouble hearing/ hearing impaired.
  • foreign language classes can use tag clouds to break down articles to interpret the meaning through new words they have learned.



Resources for Future Learning:
http://www.wordle.net/ (Generator)

http://www.tagcloudgenerator.com/ (Generator)

http://www.makecloud.com/ (Generator)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVLV9X42x4&feature=PlayList&p=ED94397F8535E830&index=0 (Tutorial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjn8HzWyrE (Video)



Future Teaching:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/07/tag-clouds-gallery-examples-and-good-practices/ (Article)

http://joeldowns.com/2007/03/04/why-everyone-should-use-tag-clouds/ (Article)

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/guests/whats_up_with_tag_clouds.pdf (Article)

http://blogs.webster.edu/fdc-soe/blog/2009/10/12/analyzing-writing-with-tag-clouds/ (Article)

http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=103 (Lesson)




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