Cool+Tools

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One of the most fascinating tools for expressing new ideas (and therefore, assisting in the creative brainstorming process) are two sites-Wordle and Tagxedo. The links are above (tag clouds and word clouds as a tool). =====

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Simply enter words or specific text, such as from literature, and when it is published, it creates a word "cloud" which has shape and form. If certain words are repeated more than one time, the word in the cloud becomes slightly or much larger. I have used this when brainstorming a "what we know" list with students. =====