Tagxedo! You're It!

One of my favorite, free web tools to use with my kiddos is Tagxedo. This website allows you or your students to create word collages for FREE!!! You simply go to www.Tagxedo.com and click Start Now. Then, you click Load and start typing words. You can choose from a variety of fonts, color themes, orientations, and shapes. You can even load one of your favorite fonts that you have saved on your computer. That can be done by clicking on the Font tab and then clicking Add font at the bottom of the screen.

Here is one I created using my students' names to display as our classroom roster on the wall outside our room:

My students created collages using vocabulary words they learned during a geometry unit. They were assigned a term that they had to describe using "math words". Here is a finished product for the term quadrilateral.

They also created collages during a Civil War unit to review key information learned during the unit.

There are so many ways this site can be used throughout the school year, and it is so, so easy. My third graders had absolutely no problem working with the site on their own. 

Here are some other ideas for using the site:

*Students can type in a piece of their writing to check for repeated words. This could help during the revising step of the writing process. 

*Make a synonym collage.

*Make a collage of verbs, adjectives, and nouns.

*List names of students in reading groups, conference groups, desk groups, etc.

*Create a collage of words related to a character trait.

*Unit vocabulary

This possibilities are endless! I will definitely be sharing how I use this tool throughout this coming school year for projects in my classroom. Have you ever used Tagxedo? What ideas do you have for using it in your classroom?