LucidChart

As anyone who knows me will agree, I am rather partial to a visual.

Lucidchart allows you to make flow charts and other visuals in a quick and easy way.

Here's a great demo video using Hey Jude lyrics...I love this way of showing lyrics.





k-12 Educators can apply for a free licence and that is just what I did here.

And one of the ways to be a better teacher...Be less helpful.

Another reason for relying less on textbooks and making learning real.
Get a compelling question which produces a compelling answer.  Develop the problems with students.

Develop patient problem solving.

Start with the visual



To watch the TED talk, click here.

Vocab Grabber

This site allows you to paste in text and gives you a wordle like cloud of word frequencies.

You can also click on the words from the cloud and this puts them in the centre of a word web of various definitions.

I like the look of it and would like it as a widget on the class blog.

Have a look here.

Visual prompt for writing from piclits.com

See the full PicLit at PicLits.comHere is a great visual prompt generator for writing.  Although sign up is required if you want to save the projects, it is quick and easy to do.