Diagram.ly - Drag & Drop Diagram Creation

Diagram.ly - Drag & Drop Diagram Creation

JGraph is a UK company that develops and supports graph visualization software and web services. One of the free services they offer is a diagram creation tool called Diagram.ly.

Diagram.ly offers a drag and drop interface for creating diagrams using clip art and pre-drawn shapes. Using the service does not require registration and all of your diagrams can be saved to your local computer in your choice of four formats (xml, png, jpg, or svg).

Applications for Education

Diagram.ly could be a good tool for students to use to create flowcharts of a process or concept. Students could also use Diagram.ly to create mindmaps that use images instead of just words and lines. As registration is not required in order to use the service you can have students using it quickly without losing instructional time to walking students through a registration process.

BIG HUGE LABS

Over 30 fun, free photo projects!

At this site, you will find a lot of fun stuff . . .

Motivational Poster maker,
Magazine Cover maker,
Warholizer,           Jigsaw,       
Movie Poster,       Slideshow
Pop Art Poster,    Billboard,
Trading Card,       and much more!

Play as much as you like—everything
is free.

Sign up for a free Educator account and get the following benefits:

• Pre-register your students so they can sign in without requiring an email address.
• View and download content created by your students.

Click on link to view a YouTube video on "Using Big Huge Labs."
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Free Websites for Creating Student Flash Cards / ABC Books

Free Websites (8) for Creating Student
Flash Cards / ABC Books

Cramberry http://cramberry.net/
• Simple interface
• Account required
• Flash card search available
• Free account - 30 cards/per day limit
• Leitner System
• Pro account - $9/year
• Apps for mobile devices

Funnel Brain     http://www.funnelbrain.com/
• Account required, email required
• Flashcards can include: photos, video, audio, math equations
• Social networking tools and study teams
• Create quizzes
• How to help videos
• Spaced repetition algorithm

Ediscio   http://www.ediscio.com/
• Leitner System
• A teacher can register a whole class on his/her account
• Learning statistics
• Flash cards can include images (upload), videos, LaTeX-based math formulas
• Printing and exporting options Work collaboratively on flash card sets

Cobocards   http://www.cobocards.com/
• must include five cards
• Flash cards can contain images and equations
• Study in teams
• Teams can edit card sets together
• How to help videos
• Printing options
• Mobile device apps
• Ready-made flash cards in pool

Flashcard DB http://flashcarddb.com/

• an account
• Quizzes
• Importing, exporting, and printing options
• Options to reverse question/answer and shuffle cards
• Leitner System or Graded Space Repetition Method
• Able to make flash card sets private

Quizlet    http://quizlet.com/
• be 13 years old to use Quizlet
• Create your own flash cards or study from publically shared sets
• Groups and chat function
• Can study cards in five different ways
• Able to include pictures
• Printing options
• Mobile device apps
• Quizlet PLUS - $10/year

Muchobeets     http://www.muchobeets.com/
• Vast SAT vocab collection
• No registration required
• Easy to use
• Account required for creating flashcards
• Email required for account

Flashcard Flash http://www.flashcardflash.com/
•  Searching flash card services
•  Built using Google Custom Search 
•   Search engine for finding sets of flashcards
•  Can browse or search existing flashcard stacks.
•  Email required for registration,
•  Able to browse and study cards without logging in/creating
•  Flash card sets are not published by default

Scribble Maps

Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to rapidly make and share maps!

With Scribble Maps you can:
- Draw shapes and Scribble!
- Place Markers and text
- Create a Custom Widget
- Save as KML/GPX
- Send maps to friends

Whether it is planning a vacation, or plotting a hiking trail or plotting the places a character in a book travels, Scribble Maps can help you out!
Note: Menu button is in the top left corner.

Scribble Maps is not Affiliated with Google

Scribble Maps is a website that lets you scribble, draw, and annotate over Google maps.  Scribble Maps even lets you print your maps, save them, embed them on your website, blog, or wiki or save them as jpeg images to your computer.   

In addition to annotating over maps, you can also add place markers with titles and descriptions, and add images to the map. 
Maps can be viewed as regular maps, terrain maps, hybrid maps, or satellite maps making it pretty ideal for every classroom need.

How to integrate Scribble Maps into the classroom:

The days of bulky pull down maps taking up space in your classroom are over. 

If you have an interactive whiteboard or computer with projector, Scribble Maps is all you need.  (You couldn’t write on those expensive maps anyway!) 

Scribble Maps is perfect for your every map need.  Whether it is a quick reference or an in depth geography lesson, Scribble Maps is easy to use, save, and print. 

Use Scribble Maps in literature or history and drop place markers with descriptions on a map as students read.  Students will have a better idea of what is happening in story when they can visually see places mentioned marked out on a map. 

Scribble Maps would be a great tool for those Flat Stanley projects that elementary classrooms across the country do each school year or to create a map for any book the students might be reading.  Play map games calling out geographical places and having students find them on the map and tag them with the information they know.

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