Thing #14

You wanna know a funny thing? My friend, S----, told me about a program called Mind App, which helps with flow charts. She used it to help map out her comic idea. I used it to map out my reflection for the micro-lesson I thought in 3070. Then forgot I had it...Until today!

Nonetheless, I tried two different programs from the list today, Bubbl.us and Gliffy.

This is my flowchart from Bubbl.us (as you can see). I used it to chart out the paper I have to write for Sp Ed. I took a screen cap of my chart and didn't sign up for the program. I mean I had a free and relatively good program already on my computer, whats the point of signing up for one online?
But I do like flowcharts. A lot. When you write, academically or otherwise, a flowchart is a nice way to visualize your ideas. This program would be great when planning a lesson or as an activity for kids as a re-empt for a piece of writing.

 

Once I got the hang of Gliffy, I really enjoyed it. There was a little while where I couldn't figure out how to change the text in a textbox, but then I started my own document and that fixed that. What I love about this site is all the different things you can do with it. Flowcharts, Venn Diagrams, room layouts, it goes on and on. I did sign up for this site. It can be easily used to create simple worksheets for your class, and in Diversity the professor stressed that simple visual representations such as flowcharts is a great tool for ELL. Aka Gliffy, I love you and so will my ELL students.
Oh and another thing I loved, you can export your product as a jpeg and other things. That makes life so much simpler.