Tagxedo

Do you tagxedo?  "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."  Basically, you go to the site click create.  Then you load the words that you would like.  You can copy the words from a different document, enter a website address, or type them in.  Next, you can choose the color, theme, shape, font, and layout.  The site allows you to save your work in multiple formats.  Below is a Tagxedo I did using only the words from this blog.  :-)  

The other really cool thing that this site allows you to do is to upload a picture and then it will put the words on top of it.  Below is my picture transformed by Tagxedo!  Imagine having this attached to your student's all about me papers at the beginning of the year filled with words that describe them!  It adds a whole dimension to the project!

Enjoy!