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Word clouds are dynamic visual representations of text. The more times a specific word appears in a source of text, the bigger and bolder it will appear in the word cloud. Wordle and Tagxedo are two of the best known word cloud generators but Wordle is a little basic and unfortunately Tagxedo no longer works. There are alternatives however, here are two of the newer generators that are becoming popular.
Word Art https://wordart.com/
Word Art started life as Tagul but changed branding in April 2017. In November, as Word Art they released a new word art creator. To have full functionality you do need to sign up to a pay plan but it is also possible to create word arts for free.
It was very easy to get up and running and within minutes I had created my first word art using a list of authors my student librarians had given me of 'Must Reads' for Valentine's Day. Word Art has an...