Tag Galexy

This first two links I sent you deal with Tag Clouds. These programs generated tags based on frequency of the words in a body of text. Keeping with the theme of tags, today's link is .


When you first go to Tag Galaxy, you will be asked to enter the "tag" for which you are searching. I used photosynthesis.


The site then searches Flickr (a photo posting site) for tags that match your search request. It also searches for related tags, which appear as moons or planets in the galaxy.


When you click on the sun, your pictures load. You can spin the sun, using your curser. If you click on a picture it will zoom in on it. If you click a second time, the photographer's name and notes will appear, if they included that information.

Besides the wow factor, it could be a good device to get a discussion or journaling started at the beginning of class. The person who demonstrated this at the METC was a language teacher who used the photos to get his students to describe what they were seeing.