Word Cloud in education

Meaning of the name

A tag cloud (word cloud, or weighted list in visual design) is a visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags) on websites, or to visualize free form text. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color. This format is useful for quickly perceiving the most prominent terms and for locating a term alphabetically to determine its relative prominence. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are hyperlinked to items associated with the tag. Teachers can use this service to distinguish the most important (key) words in the text.

Social Bookmarking

There exist many different social bookmarking websites as Facebook, Diigo and others. Here is presented Delicious. Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what you want to see. The websites of this sorts fasilitate the students' and teachers' work in finding and using information. As it is SOCIAL bookmarking students can share links, use tags to more useful  find information.