For my RILS, one of the Web 2.0 tools that I will use is Tagxedo. Whenever I have used Worlde, the students love it! So, I know they will love working with Tagxedo. Next week, the students will have a guest speaker who will facilitate a lesson on the use of social media for personal branding. In conjunction with that lesson, and to begin collecting artistic images for their career portfolio, I thought Tagxedo was a great fit.
I actually had trouble with Tagxedo. I don't think my Mac liked it. I have to figure out what the problem is. For time sake, I actually played on Tagxedo on my PC. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to make my Mac like the site. I downloaded Microsoft Silverlight, but the Create page still never populated - even after I refreshed the screen. Even working on my PC wasn't the easiest process. I have never used Tagxedo before; however, there was a weird overlap of the created images and the default image/items on the Tagxedo site.
Nevertheless, I was able to utilize the Tagxedo features and create some really cool images from text on my Action Research website and from the welcome post on this blog. I enjoyed that I could select which shape I wanted the words to form. I have to play some more with the option which allows importing a picture and having the words to take the shape of that picture. I loved how easy it is to save pictures and the ability to make multiple pictures because Tagxedo keeps a history of the word pictures for least that session.
Overall, I know the students will enjoy the versatility of Tagxedo and get them really excited about using technology to create self-descriptive images for their career portfolios.
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