Word cloud with picture

We all know that a picture says a thousand words, but what if you could have a picture and a thousand words? That’s real insight! Check out now the Free Word Cloud with Images.

AhaSlides Live Word Cloud Generator can help you to create a word cloud with images, which can not only say so much more, but it can ask so much more of your audience and can do so much more in keeping them entertained.

Here’s your practical guide to creating a word cloud with images.

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Can You Add Images to Word Clouds?

While it’s possible to add images around a word cloud, for example as a prompt or background, there are currently no tools for creating a word cloud made from images. It’s also unlikely there ever will be a tool, as it would be very hard to submit images to normal word cloud rules.

Learn how to use live word cloud generator allows you to pose a question to participants using an image or GIF as a prompt or background. With most such tools, participants can answer this question in real-time with their phones, then see their responses in one word cloud showing the popularity of all words in order of size.

A bit like this…

☝ This is what it looks like when participants of your meeting, webinar, lesson etc. enters their words live to your cloud. Sign up to AhaSlides to create free word clouds like this.

Though a word cloud made of images may not be possible, that’s not to say that pictures don’t have a place in this super versatile tool.

Here are 3 ways you can get real engagement with images and word clouds.

#1 – Image Prompt

A word cloud with image prompt is a great way to get your participants submitting ideas based on an image. Just ask a question, choose an image to show, then allow your participants to respond with their thoughts and feelings of that image.

Using their phones, participants can see the image and submit their responses to the word cloud. On your laptop you can simply hide the image to reveal all of your participants’ words.

This example is kind of like one of those old-timey ink blot tests you may have gotten at a visit to the psychiatrist in the 1950s. The most popular use for this type of image word cloud is exactly that – word association.

Here are a few example questions that this type of word cloud is best for…

💡 On many tools, you can also use GIFs as your image prompt. AhaSlides has a full library of image and GIF prompts for you to use for free!

#2 – Word Art

With some non-collaborative word cloud tools, you can create a word cloud that takes the shape of an image. Usually, the image represents something related to the content of the word cloud itself.

Here’s a simple word cloud image of a Vespa made up of text relating to scooters…

These types of word clouds certainly look great, but they’re not so clear when it comes to determining the popularity of the words within it. In this example, the word ‘motorbike’ appears as wildly different font sizes, so it’s impossible to know how many times it was submitted.

Because of this, word art word clouds are basically just that – art. If you want to create a cool, static image like this, there are several tools to choose from…

💡 Want to see the 7 best collaborative word cloud tools around? Check them out here!

#3 – Background Image

The final way in which you can use a word cloud with images is super simple.

Adding a background image to a word cloud may not feel like much, but having imagery and colour in any presentation or lesson is a sure fire way to get more engagement from those in front of you.

With AhaSlides, you can also create a PowerPoint word cloud, even a zoom word cloud, within a small number of steps! Many other collaborative word cloud tools let you choose a background image for your word cloud, but only the best give you these customisation options…

Variety and novelty in English lessons encourage learners to be more engaged. On the contrary, monotonous tasks, no matter how useful they are, cause boredom. How to bring variety without too many changes in the process of learning vocabulary? Use word clouds.

 Word clouds are a graphical representation of words and words combinations. They can be used for:

• vocabulary revision
• presenting lexis
• practicing new words
• student’s projects.

It is just a more visually appealing way to teach vocabulary. Instead of using lists, which students are probably fed up with, make clouds. You can utilize them for word searches, making monologues and dialogues, word games, writing tasks, etc.

Here are some examples of the tasks.

Task 1

Make a story about a detective investigating a case using all the words and tell your partner  (the teacher).

Task 2

Work in pairs. Ask and answer five questions using the words.

Task 3

Give a definition of one of the words. Can your partner guess the word? Swap roles.

There are some services for creating word clouds:

Word Art

Wordle

Word clouds

I personally prefer to use Word art because it’s possible to create clouds containing collocations. As we know teaching collocations is more effective for learners. Other services just break the word pairs into single words.

Let’s see how to create word clouds using Word art. It’s quick and easy, no registration is required. So click ‘Create’ and make your cloud.

Step 1

Fill in the words or word combinations. You can type as many words as you need, even 30 or even 50. It’s possible to Capitalize letters, use the UPPER or lower case. Click ‘Options’ and opt for repetition of the words as you see in one of the pictures above or choose no repetition.

Step 2

Choose the shape of your cloud: animals, nature, people or some holidays themes. If you want to see the changes, click the red button ‘Visualize’.

For example, this charming ladybird will definitely catch kids’ interest.

Step 3

Choose a font which you like. There are more than 50 fonts to select.

Step 4

Pick out a layout: horizontal, vertical, crossing words, dancing words, slopes and random. The layout will depend on the task and the learners. Teens prefer something less ordinal and more creative. For adults, I usually make more conservative things like a horizontal layout.

Step 5

Choose a style: colours of the words and the background. If you want to change a colour of the words, click ‘Words colours’ and ‘Custom’ and add more colours to the pallette.

Step 6

To apply all the changes, press ‘Print’ or ‘Download’ your cloud and enjoy it in your lessons.

!pip install wikipedia
!pip install stop-words

# Импортируем нужные библиотеки 
import wikipedia
import re

# Выбираем язык Википедии и интересующую нас страницу
wikipedia.set_lang("ru")
wiki = wikipedia.page('Гарри Поттер')

# Извлекаем текст из полученной страницы
text = wiki.content

# Очищаем текст с помощью регулярных выражений
text = re.sub(r'==.*?==+', '', text) # удаляем лишние символы
text = text.replace('n', '') # удаляем знаки разделения на абзацы

# Импортируем библиотеку для визуализации
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

# Функция для визуализации облака слов
def plot_cloud(wordcloud):
    # Устанавливаем размер картинки
    plt.figure(figsize=(40, 30))
    # Показать изображение
    plt.imshow(wordcloud) 
    # Без подписей на осях
    plt.axis("off")

# Импортируем инструменты для облака слов и списки стоп-слов
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from stop_words import get_stop_words

# Записываем в переменную стоп-слова русского языка
STOPWORDS_RU = get_stop_words('russian')

# Генерируем облако слов
wordcloud = WordCloud(width = 2000, 
                      height = 1500, 
                      random_state=1, 
                      background_color='black', 
                      margin=20, 
                      colormap='Pastel1', 
                      collocations=False, 
                      stopwords = STOPWORDS_RU).generate(text)

# Рисуем картинку
plot_cloud(wordcloud)

wordcloud.to_file('hp_cloud_simple.png')

# Импортируем необходимое
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

# Превращаем картинку в маску
mask = np.array(Image.open('/content/upvote.png'))

# Генерируем облако слов
wordcloud = WordCloud(width = 2000, 
                      height = 1500, 
                      random_state=1, 
                      background_color='white', 
                      colormap='Set2', 
                      collocations=False, 
                      stopwords = STOPWORDS_RU, 
                      mask=mask).generate(text)
                      
# Выводим его на экран
plot_cloud(wordcloud)

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