Tagxedo

Tagxedo

Looking through various web-sites I stumbled onto Tagxedo and thought I found something fantastic but was a little let down by the end of my experience.

The Tagxedo idea is, in my opinion, very exciting. I found it visually stimulating and easy to create but after making my creation found that I could only share half of the product.

With Tagxedo the idea is to import a group of words which mean something to you, select some options such as shape and colour and spin it into an image like the one I created below. The words can be in a text document and uploaded or you can upload a blog or web-site address and Tagxedo will import the words from that location.

In keeping with my focus on learning designs and theories integrating ICT I selected some words from the revised Blooms Taxonomy and created a text file which I then uploaded in Tagxedo. The fun part is as you move your mouse over the words they pop out and make themselves seen.

I would love to embed something like this into another creation, such as a glogster or a wiki or blog. I believe it to have the potential to be a great visual learning tool. Unfortunately, although it appears to have the feature to create a HTML code I couldn't get it to work. The best I could do was save a jpeg file and upload the static image. The static image is still great but it loses definition the larger you make it and knowing how it should work with the words popping out leaves me feeling let down just looking at the static image.

The only way I can figure to look at the word popping version is to follow the instructions I have in my wiki.

Click on the image I created in Tagxedo below to be re-directed to my wiki.

Blooms Taxonomy Apple

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Taxedo Creator