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http://tagul.com/ Members of the group 1. Terentyeva Tatyana Mironovna 2. Kovalenko Natalia Vladimirovna 3. Kuznetsova Olga Vladimirovna 4. Lishchinskaya Elena Adamovna 5. Petchanina Natalya Vasilievna 6. Kutas Ekaterina Viktorovna This is a web service that allows you to create a cloud of words from text taken from the specified web page address or copied by the user. Each word in the cloud, when you hover over it, is highlighted and presented as a hyperlink. Registration is required to use this service. For information on how to register and get started, see the following slides. History of creation Tagul The author is Alex, as he calls himself in the communities. He spent some time looking for a great idea to implement himself as a programmer and as soon as he noticed that there were many tag clouds on the Internet, but practically all of them were ugly and did not look like clouds at all. Alex decided to make a web service that would allow users to create real tag clouds. Then he found Wordle and was amazed by its text-to-text capabilities, and was inspired by this idea so much that he decided to implement it in Tagul. It was a difficult task, but she was made by them. Within a year of hard work, Tagul was created. The idea was realized from scratch to the start of the beta testing stage, where Tagul is now. Where to begin? Registration To register, click on the "sign up" button, on the page that appears, fill in your data: login (username) and E - mail, click the Sign up button. First steps after registration mailbox a letter with a password and a link should come, following which you will have to enter your login, password, press the sign in button and you can start working on creating a word cloud. Technology for creating a word cloud on Tagul Getting started Press CREATE A NEW CLOUD Service toolkit Saving, printing, copying Selecting a color scheme, animation Selecting a font Selecting a template Word filter Loading words, text, site Text input field (first option) The initial version looks like in the picture below (Fig. 1). To create your own cloud in the Text window, delete old text(ctrl + A, delete) and enter the one we need to create the cloud. For example, "my favorite class" (Fig. 2). rice. 1 fig. 2 Text entry field (Option 2) Text can be removed by pressing the Clear button. In order for the main words in the cloud to differ in size from secondary words, you need to after entering or copying the desired text into the text field Achieving the effect of word size differences 1. Go to the Manually edit tags tab not what you want, then click on the Clear all button, 1 2 Note: when copying text from another site, your words appear automatically in the above field, then go from the first step immediately to the fifth. 3. Add the words of the desired cloud by pressing the + Add tag button. 4. Instead of the word new tag that appears in the field, enter the desired word. 5. In the column on the right opposite, set the word size. 6. If you need to delete any word, then select it and click - Delete tag (delete the tag), to delete all words - click on the Clear all button. 3 4 5 6 7. Similarly, add other words and set their size. 8. We go sequentially to other menu tabs, perform the necessary actions. 9. You can risk previewing the result by clicking the Visualize button! 7 8 9 Possible underwater rocks when creating a cloud and how to fix them After you have entered the desired text in the field and immediately clicked Visualize, you can immediately experience disappointment when you see an error message instead of the long-awaited cloud. This happened because everything must be done consistently! The next step is: 1. Enter the Filter common words tab 2 Enter a Russian word 3. Press 4. We see that the word is displayed in the text field It is possible that these actions will not be enough to generate the desired cloud. 1. If the error occurs again, then experiment with fonts on the Fonts tab by checking the boxes in different places. 2. Enter another Russian word in the box 3. Now you can try to press the Visualize button! And then you will definitely get your first long-awaited cloud! (don't forget to save it) Work with templates. Selection Work with templates Angle of rotation, scale Create your own template Upload any picture Change the degree of rotation of words Change the number of words Change the font Choose one or more fonts Be careful when choosing a font Change the color scheme. Text You can write all the words in the cloud in different colors. Just enter the required code. Changing the color scheme. Background Animation settings Changing scale, rotation Animation settings Changing the color of the selected text Animation settings Changing the background of the selected text Animation settings Highlighted text frame Capabilities of the service Tagul provides a lot of interesting examples for creating clouds. Russification of the Browser service Google Chrome can ease your suffering in mastering service buttons with foreign inscriptions. You can use the translation panel for this. If you still haven't got it, then: Step one Click on the wrench icon on the browser toolbar Step two In the list that opens, select Options Step three Go to the Advanced tab Step four Use the checkbox "Offer page translation if I do not speak the language on which it is written" to enable or disable the translation function Step Five When you open the site, rejoice at the miracle that has happened - at least something has become clear PS In the translator settings, you can check the box Always translate English into Russian. Saving the finished cloud Click save and in the window that opens, specify the path and image format. Save to my documents - drawings When saving the cloud, do not forget to specify the FILE TYPE - JPEG drawing Link to your cloud Create your own cloud. We wish you good luck!

Word clouds for foreign language lessons can be created to carry out work while learning new or consolidating the studied educational material. On the one hand, the web service helps the teacher effectively diversify the daily practical work with lexical material, on the other hand, it is a useful learning tool that can be used in a lot of interesting ways and make the process of mastering educational material more exciting for students. Clouds help the teacher to develop the attention and logical thinking of students.

Usually a "cloud" is a set of 8-16 words on a single topic.

I imagine a word cloud in which expressions are mixed with verbs Make And Do
do the housework make coffee
do the dishes make a photocopy
do the cooking make a video
do exercises make a phone call
do business with make a decision
do homework make a mistake

Working with this service is simple, as well as creating the “cloud” itself. The use of this technique helps in achieving the goal of developing ICT - competence in students.

The possibilities of using the "cloud of words" in teaching are related to the fact that:

– In the cloud, you can record the topic of the lesson, which students must determine.

- Ask for suggestions on a specific topic. "Cloud" acts as a reference abstract.

– The words in the “cloud” need to be divided into groups by meaning/topics.

– Make up sentences or a story using as many words from the cloud as possible.

– Create a vocabulary cloud based on small, recently studied texts, and ask students to remember what these texts were about and in what context the words were used.

- Show a "cloud" made up of words taken from an unfamiliar text, and ask to guess its content. Or take text with gaps and ask them to fill them in based on the cloud.

Tagul - a web service that allows you to create a word cloud from text taken from a specified URL (web page address) or entered (copied) by the user. The cloud can be presented in various shapes and colors. Each word in the cloud is highlighted when hovered over and presented as a hyperlink.

Consider the process of creating a word cloud in this service:
1. We go to the site to create a word cloud - https://tagul.com/
2. Registration in the Tagul.com service is simple:

Name - mail - password and the "Sign Up" button - a letter of congratulations on registration is sent to your mail. You can also choose to register with one of the popular social networks. In this case, a name and mailbox will be automatically created for you (according to the social network data). You can enter through social network, but you will also have the opportunity to log in using the created login and password, which will be sent to you by mail.

Editing word clouds with Tagul.com

The editor is very simple and intuitive. The left panel contains the management tools. Such a panel is called an "accordion" - clicking on any of the grouping buttons opens one control panel, hiding others. The control contains the following groups: Words, Shapes, Fonts, Display, Colors, Export.

IN right panel there are project management buttons: save (save changes), copy, delete, print (print). The "Visualize" button will allow you to display all the changes made to the project. "Animation mode" and "Edit mode" are intended for the final work with the project, allowing you to move words, swap, zoom in and out.

Group Words (Words)

Enter the words one by one or load the list (import words). You can also set the display of words: uppercase, lowercase, capitalized (all letters are uppercase, but the first letters are in large size).

Shapes Group

It is intuitively clear that the color form sets not only the geometry of the future picture, but also the colors that the words will be written in. You can upload your form, this will make your cloud unique.

Group Fonts

The choice of fonts offered by the developers is very wide. However, most of the fonts are not Russified. This is a serious minus, however, the system allows you to upload and use your own font.

Group Display (Layout)

Selecting the form for displaying words inside the cloud. Also contains additional settings word display.

Group Colors (Colors and Animations)

In visualization, there is a special way of presenting textual information: a word cloud. The essence of the technique lies in the fact that the object or phenomenon under study is described as a set keywords(word clouds) that fit into the graphic figure in a special way. In the head of the visual, the picture begins to be associated with a set of words, which makes it easier to assimilate new material. At the same time, a word cloud can be a good illustration for an article or material.

Consider one of the most quality services Web 2.0 for creating word clouds - WordArt.com (formerly Tagul.com). By the way, the illustration for the article was made in this service.

Learning to create word clouds using the WordArt.com service (Tagul.com)

The WordArt.com (Tagul.com) service is very easy to use, allows you to upload word lists, fonts and surfaces, and has various export forms. And all this is free. There are only two exceptions: 1) if you want to use the word clouds obtained using the Tagul.com service for commercial purposes, pay money to the developers; 2) free download of clouds in high quality is not available to us (these are really huge pictures that the average Russian will never need).

Tagul.com - main

Registration in the service WordArt.com (Tagul.com)

Registration in the Tagul.com service is elementary:

Tagul.com - registration

Name - mail - password and the "Sign Up" button - a letter of congratulations on registration is sent to your mail. You can also choose to register with one of the popular social networks. In this case, a name and a mailbox will be automatically created for you (according to the social network data). You will be able to log in through a social network, but you will also have the opportunity to log in using the created login and password, which will be sent to you by mail.

Tagul.com - after registration

You can immediately start creating a word cloud by clicking the "Create new word cloud art" button.

You can always go to the list of word clouds you created by clicking on the MY CLOUDS button in the upper right corner of the site.

Tagul.com - list of projects

By clicking on the name of the word cloud, you will enter the editing mode. Pay attention to the Duplicate button in the list of projects. It allows you to create a new cloud based on an existing one.

Word Cloud Editing with WordArt.com (Tagul.com)

Tagul.com - general view of the editor, choice of words

The editor is very simple and intuitive. The left panel contains the management tools. Such a panel is called an "accordion" - clicking on any of the grouping buttons opens one control panel, hiding others. The control contains the following groups: Words, Shapes, Fonts, Display, Colors, Export.

The right panel contains project management buttons: save (save changes), copy, delete, print (print). The Visualize button will allow you to display all the changes made to the project. Animation mode and Edit mode are for final work with the project, allowing you to move words, swap, zoom in and out.

Group Words (Words)

Enter the words one by one or load the list (import words). You can also set the display of words: uppercase, lowercase, capitalized (all letters are uppercase, but the first letters are in large size).

Shapes Group

Tagul.com - Forms

It is intuitively clear that the color form sets not only the geometry of the future picture, but also the colors that the words will be written in. You can upload your form, this will make your cloud unique.

Group Fonts

Tagul.com - fonts

The choice of fonts offered by the developers is very wide. However, most of the fonts are not Russified. This is a serious minus, however, the system allows you to upload and use your own font.

Group Display (Layout)

Tagul.com - display

Selecting the form for displaying words inside the cloud. It also contains additional settings for displaying words.

Group Colors (Colors and Animations)

Tagul.com - colors

You can use the colors of the form or customize the color palette of the cloud yourself.

Export group (Download and Share)

Tagul.com - export

You are given the following options to export the word cloud:

Important note! To turn on the mode Public the word cloud must be rendered at least once (the largest button is visualize in the right half of the editor window).

Copy link to word cloud

Important note! Button Link will appear in the settings only after you turn on the mode Public in the property group Internet Visibility.

Copying the code to embed on the site

To place the code on a website or blog, in the Place on a web page block, click on the HTML icon. A form will open with a code that should be copied and pasted onto the site (the view may differ from that presented in the description).

Tagul.com - integrated word cloud

Enjoy using the service!