Cool tool review #3- Tagul

Hey ya'll I did my third cool tool review as tagul.com and it is kind of neat. Way out of my own comfort zone but I am happy I did this because it opens up a whole new mindset for my class or in life itself. This website allows you to put any words into shapes. The website has shapes for you to choose from as well as an option to upload your own shape, such as clipart or pictures. You can add any words you want and as many as you want to each shape, as well as repeat words if you need to because you don't have enough. You can choose what font you want the words to be in and from what I could see, it's not optional to have multiple fonts, but they can be different sized words. The site allows you to put the text in any way or layout, such as horizontal, vertical, slanted, crossing words, random, etc. After that you get to choose colors for each word(s), background, and when you roll over the text if it is saved onto the internet. This site allows for open minded experimenting with being able to redo your mistakes easily which is great for someone like me who is afraid to make mistakes that you can't fix.

The way I would use this in a classroom would be in the beginning of the year where I would introduce it to older students maybe 3rd grade and up. I would have students make a tagul out of words that described themselves with at least 10 words included, with the shape of their choice off the website to start. Then we would print them off and hang them up and allow each student to read everybody's and then figure out whose belongs to whom. This would only be simple and a first get to know you activity. I would give my students the first couple of days to do this type of project, because it would be a great way to introduce us to computer working and allow time for my class to warm up to one another while helping each other out.

Students could easily make their own pieces of word art on their own with this website, because all you need is an email address or facebook, twitter, or any other social media to sign in.Given the age, it might be hard for students to do their own so parents can also help and allow students to do something under their own email address. However, if I as the teacher signs in on all computers, the students could easily make their own given that they know letters and can type and read the buttons to press on the website. It's easy to use because everything is self explanatory and you don't have to go to different pages in order to update what work you want to do. The students in my class would be challenged before learning the buttons and exploring the website itself however, it wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to learn about how the website works and then the students could make their own introduction word shape. In general I like this website a lot more than others I have tried and am very happy with what I can up with from this.
here is the link to where you can access the website and pictures from my own:
https://tagul.com