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Tag Crowd is fantastic for the visual learner! Tag Crowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud. It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University.
When we look at a text cloud, we see not only an informative, but images that communicates in a single glance, we see a whole new perspective on text.
TagCrowd would be an effective, visual tool for our classrooms particularly as topic summaries for speeches and written works . In my opinion it would most benefit students in reflecting on their work. Another way to incorporates this tool is for the use of literacy learning. Here students can use this tool for the development and experimentation of poetry planning and writing.

However, as I said this tool would be useful for the visual learner. I feel that there may be a limit to what we can do pedagogically with this tool.There’s not a whole lot you can do pedagogically but it could come in handy for improving the vocabulary of student topics. I feel that a great teacher of literacy involves helping students' to 'visualise the language' so with this advantage and also the fact that students would enjoy this tool I would love to employ such an application into my planning process.