Friday, January 19, 2018

Jer-Share 1-19-2018


Welcome to the Jer-Share!

This blog brings you k-12 Ed-Tech to help enhance your classroom!

Are the current chrome screenshot programs not working out very good for you? Try Loom!
It is a screenshot program that will take pictures and videos of anything on your desktop. Click here to see how to install it. 


19 Free Tools To Create Infographics For Teachers 

  • amCharts Visual Editor This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. This means that all you need to do is to configure the chart and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page
  • ChartsBin Create your own interactive map. It's free for now.

  • Easel.ly Create and share visual ideas online. Vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!
  • Gapminder Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view.
  • Gliffy Gliffy.com is a free web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online.
  • Google Chart Tools Provides several tools for making data more comprehensible. Special URLs can be used to embed graph and chart images in users' own web.
  • infogr.am  Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!
  • Inkscape An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
  • Lucidchart  With Lucidchart you can create flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, concept maps and many types of helpful visual communication. Lucidchart is completely free for students and teachers (no strings attached).
  • Piktochart Piktochart- Make Information Beautiful. Create infographics. Engaging presentation app.
  • Pixlr Welcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world!
  • Stat Planet  StatPlanet (formerly StatPlanet Map Maker) is free, award-winning software for creating interactive maps which are fully customizable. In addition to maps, the software also has the option of including interactive graphs and charts to create feature-rich infographics.
  • Tableau Public Tableau Public is a free tool that brings data to life. Easy to use. Spectacularly powerful. Data In. Brilliance Out.
  • Venngage Venngage is built for people who work with data. From analysts who want to communicate their data better, to the executives who want to understand insights faster and everyone else who uses data to make their decisions, Venngage has been made to make insights easier.
  • visual.ly Like infographics and data visualization? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of infographics and data visualization. Come explore, share, and create.
  • What About Me? Create an infographic of your digital life and become inspired by the people you know, the things you see, and the experiences you have online.
  • Wordle Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

How to Create an Interactive Diagram in Google Slides



Google Slides has a lot of capabilities that often go overlooked. One of those capabilities is the option to link slides so that viewers don't have to necessarily see them in a chronological sequence. By linking slides you can create an interactive diagram in Google Slides.

Click here to see the video.


10 Free Apps for Elementary math!



Click here to see all 10 apps. 


How to Create an Interactive Diagram in Google SlidesCritical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims


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Create Your Own Google Classroom!




Google Classroom CheatSheet!

Click here to see googles easy instructions.