{"id":486,"date":"2022-05-21T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/?p=486"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:16:41","slug":"word-cloud-sandbox-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/2022\/05\/21\/word-cloud-sandbox-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Cloud &#8211; Sandbox #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Word-Art.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Word-Art.jpeg 758w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Word-Art-300x261.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Word-Art-345x300.jpeg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This word cloud is brought to you by WordArt.com.\u00a0 This website had many different options of shapes and fonts to allow one to be creative in the formation of a word cloud.\u00a0 I thought it was easy to generate the word cloud and I liked the variety of the options of shapes that could be used.\u00a0 I also explored the ABCya word cloud generator.\u00a0 Although I thought the shapes offered for this word cloud generator were lacking in their creativity (WordArt.com was better in that department), I liked the user-friendly buttons and graphics that were used.\u00a0 A young child could easily navigate this word cloud generator.\u00a0 The word cloud generator by Word It Out was easy to navigate and generated a basic cloud.\u00a0 There were no fun shapes to use and it seemed to only repeat the word once but, depending on the font, this could be a good choice for a basic cloud.\u00a0 My least favorite word cloud generator was Monkey Learn Word Cloud Generator.\u00a0 It seemed static in design and didn\u2019t have many graphics.\u00a0 When I was trying to make a word cloud, it was kind of boring in both product and process of design.\u00a0 I would definitely use WordArt.com to generate a word cloud for different uses in the library. \u00a0I can see this tool being used for labeling different genres in a library.\u00a0 This could also be a good tool to use to create a project for students.\u00a0 Students could create a word cloud using adjectives to describe characters in books.\u00a0 They could also make word clouds to summarize books by using key words.\u00a0 A word cloud could also be made by using parts of a book for young readers or by using library vocabulary for a fun activity (for example: Non-Fiction, Fiction, Check-Out, Bookshelf, etc).\u00a0 Fun activities to incorporate technology and language! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"859\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Cinderella.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Cinderella.jpeg 859w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Cinderella-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Cinderella-768x519.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27852\/2022\/05\/Cinderella-444x300.jpeg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><figcaption>Example of a Word Cloud that a student could generate for a lesson on a fairy tale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This word cloud is brought to you by WordArt.com.\u00a0 This website had many different options of shapes and fonts to allow one to be creative in the formation of a word cloud.\u00a0 I thought it was easy to generate the word cloud and I liked the variety of the options of shapes that could be&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/2022\/05\/21\/word-cloud-sandbox-1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":23080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-lprok001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}