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A **tag cloud** or **word cloud** is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.

 A word cloud can also show the most prominent words in any given text. One of the most popular word cloud applications is Wordle, which creates word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Below is a very useful presentation on how to use word clouds with students:

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