Word Clouds for Open Response (Free Text) Polls

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People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we’ve made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul.  You’ll find a new view called “Word cloud” on your Free Text Polls.

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Here’s an example word cloud from a talk where Ev and Biz (the founders of Twitter) used Poll Everwhere to collect questions from the audience.

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  • Steve Farrelly

    Awesome! Here’s some clouds I created. Share yours!What subjects do you teach?Who was the most influential president of the US?NOTE: To embed images in your comment format like this (replace the { } with < > ){img src=”http://addressofyourimagehere” width=430}

  • bobscirpo

    Here’s one about Elmo…

  • derekbruff

    I asked a group of grad students leading training sessions for new TAs (teaching assistants) later this week, “What 3-5 words would you use to describe effective TAs?” Here’s what they came up with:The export to Wordle was very smooth.

  • Steve Farrelly

    Thanks to Jennifer (Indiana Jen) for posting a great word cloud and article on her blog! ” … keen insight and questions that the children prompted – and they were far more open and chatty then I often see them in class … ” On the Epic of Gilgamesh!http://indianajen.com/2011/08/20/using-poll-everywhere-day-2/

  • Steve Farrelly

    Here’s another from Tinashe! “I asked them to provide a real-life example of a function with its domain and range included in the [poll] answer.” She created a word cloud from some of her favorite responses. Like these gems:“How many girls you have depends on many shoes you have”“(domain)The more you text =(range) the faster you get “Thanks Mrs. Blanchet!http://blanchetblog.net/2011/08/16/i-polled-everywhere-today/