This post is inspired by @jivespin who runs a fabulous blog full of great teaching ideas. His tweet (below) made me want to play around with Tagxuedo myself, it had been a while.
NEW RESOURCE – Friedrich Ebert’s Weimar Republic Word Cloud http://t.co/Raczv6vVMO #historyteacher #histedchat …. for @Cybotta
— John Mitchell (@Jivespin) September 14, 2013
At the time of writing, importing images in Taxuedo is still in Beta so you can still import images for free. I will soon be doing Weimar and the Rise of Hitler again so I made two Taxuedos, one of Hitler and one of Stresemann. I used the Wikipedia entries as my sources list, but took some Wikipedia specific words such as: Edit, Navigation, pp, Wikipedia out of the word list. It is interesting to see the differences between the two.
A clickable version of the Wikipedia entry on Hitler below: Continue reading “Fun with wordclouds”